Country trends toward moderate candidates but Trump was president and being q anon seems like a requirement to run for a deep red seat now… totally checks out.
1. Trump barely won, and even then he lost the popular vote.
2. He only won by flipping states that were blue for generations, an aberration.
3. He campaigned a career politician that was almost universally disliked, even by Democrats.
4. Clinton barely campaigned. Didn't campaign in Wisconsin and barely stepped inside Michigan until her campaign got word of unions trending towards Trump.
5. Joe Biden beat Trump - and by extension Bernie - by far amount, both in terms of electoral votes as well as the popular vote. Candidates like Goldwater have historically been routed and lost.
"But Trump!" does not prove a rule the way you think it does and continuously pointing to him, screaming his name into the night till you turn blue doesn't exactly mean you're right.
"Yeah, and he lost upon re-election." You didn't think the next step very hard, did you? Trump, as many problems as he had, wasn't even that extreme. Not much changed overall and the America machine kept on chugging.
You mention Q anon but most Americans are trending towards the Dems after the Roe v Wade SCOTUS decision. Even Kansas Republicans are voting to codify abortion. This shows that Americans don't like it when you stray too far, no matter which side of the aisle. Also, the current crop of Republicans is so dire Dems are slated to possibly take the Senate at midterms.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/06/election-forecast-dems-gops-senate-00054842I think you guys are overthinking it, AOC isn't even popular with Democrats except when she says sassy things on social media. Those polls about who should run in 2024 if Biden doesn't have all shown her at like 4% among Democrats.
Not overthinking it. We are just commenting on the fact that AOC will never become President and bringing her into the discussion as seen in that article is laughable. In fact, you're proving our point. No one seriously thinks she has a chance.