{"id":1408852,"date":"2022-03-30T00:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T04:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408852"},"modified":"2022-03-30T00:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T04:44:50","slug":"aoc-were-in-trouble-if-democrats-shun-far-left-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-were-in-trouble-if-democrats-shun-far-left-base\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC: &#039;We&#039;re in Trouble&#039; if Democrats Shun Far-Left Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-were-in-trouble-if-democrats-shun-far-left-base%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408852&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has warned that Democrats will be in for a world of trouble in the 2022 midterms if they do not play to the far-left progressive base.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/03\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-i-was-right-about-joe-manchin.html?utm_medium=s1&#038;utm_campaign=nym&#038;utm_source=tw\"><em>New York Magazine<\/em><\/a>, the far-left congresswoman criticized President Joe Biden for his failure to pass the Build Back Better agenda, blaming it on his nostalgia for a bygone political era when deals could be reached over a round of bourbon and cigars.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI have the utmost respect and confidence in the president, but I just felt like we called two different plays on this one,\u201d said AOC. \u201cI think that there is a sense among more senior members of Congress, who have been around in different political times, that we can get back to this time of buddy-buddy and backslapping.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a real nostalgia and belief that that time still exists or that we can get back to that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>AOC voted against the infrastructure bill that Joe Biden signed into law, believing it should have been combined with the failed Build Back Better agenda so that supporters of the infrastructure bill could not split their vote.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the 2022 midterms, with Republicans poised to take back the necessary seats in the House, AOC said that Democrats need to lean into the far-left progressive base if they want to have a shot at keeping Republicans out of leadership:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We need to acknowledge that this isn\u2019t just about middle of the road, an increasingly narrow band of independent voters. This is really about the collapse of support among young people, among the Democratic base, who are feeling that they worked overtime to get this president elected and aren\u2019t necessarily being seen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AOC suggested that Biden start legislating from the executive branch with executive orders aimed to fight climate change, lower health care costs, and cancel student loan debt, all of which will surely face Supreme Court challenges in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2022\/01\/13\/supreme-court-rejects-bidens-osha-vaccine-mandate-on-private-employers-upholds-cms-mandate\/\">same way his<\/a> (failed) vaccine mandate did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the president does pursue and start to govern decisively using executive action and other tools at his disposal, I think we\u2019re in the game,\u201d she said. \u201cBut if we decide to just kind of sit back for the rest of the year and not change people\u2019s lives \u2014 yeah, I do think we\u2019re in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s set in stone. I think that we can determine our destiny here,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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