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AOC

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AOC

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AOC is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 09, 2021 and February 27, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The Democrats’ Tea Party equivalent is probably AOC”; “AOC gives a pretty scary story about how NBC deliberately misinterpreted her actions at the Democratic convention”; “Bernie and AOC could still take over the left”. It most often appears alongside Trump, California, Civil War.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: February 09, 2021
  • Last seen: February 27, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Book Review: Why We're Polarized
February 09, 2021 · Original source
But after a bit of this he regains his footing and segues into a stronger argument that might give even conservatives some food for thought. Klein notes that although both Democrats and Republicans have some extremists in their coalition, the institutional Democrats seem to be doing a better job preventing them from gaining power. In a purely structural sense, without getting into whether you believe they're morally equivalent or whatever, the democratic socialists/Bernie Sanders seem to be an "insurrection" comparable to the Tea Party/Trump on the Republican side. But the mainstream neoliberal Republicans surrendered to the Tea Party and to Trump in rapid succession, and the mainstream neoliberal Democrats are still resisting. The Democrats' Tea Party equivalent is probably AOC, but she and her allies are still a small minority in the Democratic caucus. And the Dem presidential nomination went to Joe Biden, a moderate who wouldn't look out of place running for president in 1988 (in fact...). Why We're Polarized was published too early to mention Biden in this context, but we can count him as a correct prediction for its theory.
Links For May
May 20, 2021 · Original source
...alize administration in a way that just creates a duplicate and worse administration beside the old decentralized one. 19: In response to a question about hype in media, AOC gives a pretty scary story about how NBC deliberately misinterpreted her actions at the Democratic convention. 20: What jobs are most disproportionately transmitted from parents to kids? (here’s the source , with more information, but it’s paywalled) In general, people who have a...
Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public
September 17, 2021 · Original source
Or is this ignoring fundamental asymmetries? The Right can (sometimes) muster up trust in Donald Trump and Fox News, but they still seem pretty Border. Meanwhile, the center-left is celebrating mainstream journalists and universities and experts with a vigor that seems perhaps more desperate, but no less intense, than in the 20th century. Perhaps this will change; the Right could swing back to being Romneycrats, and Bernie and AOC could still take over the left. But so far it doesn't look that way. Maybe the occasional tendency of the US to switch party systems has captured the center-vs-border conflict and subsumed it into the broader left-right one.
Links For February 2025
February 27, 2025 · Original source
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