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The authenticity critique is the devastating one. AOC built her entire brand on being the outsider insurgent who told the truth when the establishment lied. Conway just documented that the insurgent is now running “stunts and grunts” to rebrand herself as a moderate — which is what the establishment does when it’s in trouble. The authenticity was always the product. Now that the product has a use-by date, she’s trying to reformulate it.
The commander-in-chief question is the one that should follow AOC from now until 2028. Asked about it recently, she giggled. Conway noted that on a world stage, with allies watching and adversaries calculating, that kind of response would be “embarrassing and a disaster.” The woman who wants to run foreign policy giggled when asked if she could.
There is one thing Conway credited her for: knocking off Joe Crowley in 2018 was genuinely impressive — a real upset that nobody saw coming. Everything since has coasted on that moment’s residual energy while producing almost nothing legislatively and losing every major endorsement race she entered.
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