America First=Seccession

[Dill]

(02-20-2023, 05:53 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I admittedly don't follow all because I largely avoid social media and only ever occasionally peek at it for sports news, so maybe this is me being naive, but isn't she the public face of the Republican party as much as AoC is the public face of the Democratic party? They just get a lot of play on the news because they say stupid shit and the news knows that outrage brings rage clicks so they amplify everything they say?

For example, the only reason I know ANYTHING that Alex Jones has ever said is because I have a couple friends who talk about being outraged at or mocking some absurd shit he's said. If it weren't for the people I know who hate him, his name and anything he said would literally never make its way into my life. 
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I have never heard of her in a non-outraged or non-mocking article, so is she really the face? Or just the media bait?

Well Len, AOC is certainly the "public face" of an anti-racist, pro-green, pro-LGBQT progressive politics, 

just as MTJ is the face of a racist, anti-Globalist, anti-democratic regressive politics grounded in Jones-style conspiracies.

Whether and to the degree each is the public face of her respective party can't be decided by the number of rage clicks generated by
promotion of universal health care in one case or calls for violence against colleagues in the other. We need to see what kind of power they actually wield IN their respective parties, the committees they are on, degree of backing from big party donors, photo ops with party leaders during the presidential primaries--stuff like that.  E.g., which is more likely to be selected VP by a presidential primary winner, which less likely? 

https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/legislation/committees-and-caucuses
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/17/marjorie-taylor-greene-paul-gosar-house-committee-assignments