Encapsulated in this blurb is a tweet by Ocasio-Cortez. Basically, the Five White Guys revolt against Nancy Pelosi has predictably fizzled on the fact of the facts. Pelosi is a bad ass. She will mess a fool up. Seth Moulton has almost certainly earned himself a primary challenge for his troubles. She will be the next Speaker, because she was always going to be the next Speaker, because...bad ass.
The tweet is instructive, too, because if Pelosi is smart - and she is - she will get AOC in front of the cameras frequently. AOC is smart, especially about media. There are a few of these younger generation legislators who are proficient in social media - Brian Schatz and Beto O'Rourke come to mind, too - and Pelosi needs to leverage those skills.
There is a generation of Democratic politicians, and here I'm thinking of Chuck Schumer and Steny Hoyer, who were conditioned by the 1980s. The country lurched rightward and the Democratic party entered a minority period in the House in 1994. Their reflex is to crouch against a coming blow and to "reach out" across the aisle for some sort of "bipartisan comity" that simply doesn't exist anymore. Pelosi is from that same era, but she learned the important lesson that comity died. It was Pelosi who saved Social Security in 2005.
Find a new Majority Leader and stick that person in front of a camera. I like Ted Leiu on social media, but there has to be someone under the age of 60 with the chops to take on bullshit talking points on Press the Meat. Adam Schiff has his lane, but they need someone to be the face of the party while Nancy smashes the Republicans behind closed doors.
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