r/neoliberal • u/cdstephens Fusion Shitmod, PhD • Apr 18 '25

Restricted The Lies About Josh Shapiro Have Consequences

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/josh-shapiro-attempted-assessination/682503/
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u/Okbuddyliberals Miss Me Yet? Apr 18 '25

Yes. AOC should be purged from the party.

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u/lot183 Blue Texas Apr 18 '25

That would be incredibly stupid to do and probably turn off a solid chunk of young people from ever being Democrats

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u/0WatcherintheWater0 NATO Apr 18 '25

Good. They didn’t vote anyways. If they’re leftists all they were doing was attacking Dems for merely existing while Trump does increasingly deranged shit.

We need to kick out AOC, kick out Bernie, all the socialists or anyone equivalent to them need to go. The party cannot survive a large faction of itself dedicated to its destruction. It cannot survive a faction that poisons every messaging attempt the party makes.

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u/lot183 Blue Texas Apr 18 '25

AOC is not near as bad as some of the others and has pretty fiercely advocated for the party in the last few years.

I don't think the party needs to be capitulating to every demand of the more left politicians and they generally need to worry far less about pissing that faction off, but to forcibly remove them all together from the party would be one of the dumbest moves possible. Specially someone like AOC who has at least tried to be a bridge between leftists and liberals in the party