The Squad Is About to Fight for Its Political Life

[Celerity]

46. Tlaib is pretty much the only one I would I would not shed a tear over if she lost a primary. That said,

AIPAC going (and given their history they will go scorched earth) hard attack job on AOC (who is thankfully likely untouchable at this point) and also Maxwell Frost (the first Gen Z member of congress and incredibly poised, with loads of charisma) will enrage a shedload of the under 40yo voters, especially the 18 to 34yo set. I myself am nearly dead in the middle there, having just turned 27, and as I have a very large social set of 35 year olds and under, one that includes many many Americans, both expats and ones living in the US, I can safely say it will be a disaster for AIPAC with them.

It also may well make my GOTV efforts harder. The 35yo and under crowd is, on balance, far less linked at the hip with the Democratic Party than most all on DU are. I get a lot of stick myself for attempting to be the pragmatist. The nihilism and anger can be quite intense at times. Some here on DU would explode in rage if they were in a non moderated (ie no jury alerts to prevent true feelings from coming out) chat with 100 of my social set, picked at random (with the caveat that at least half would be Americans). So many of the standard articles of faith held by some here would never fly. It would not be comfortable at all for a certain type of DUer, especially the loss of control to quash narratives they do not like nor want to hear.