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How the Democrats set $billions on fire and failed. Again.
AOC gets it mostly right, but fails to identify the true problem
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made news recently with a bombshell interview that appeared in The New York Times. In the piece, AOC offers a critique of the Democratic Party, specifically in the way the party spends its campaign funds.
The DNC and its campaign arms, the D.C.C.C. and the D.S.C.C., are mired in the past, according to Ocasio-Cortez. “Our party isn’t even online, not in a real way that exhibits competence,” she says. “And so, yeah, they were vulnerable to these messages, because they weren’t even on the mediums where these messages were most potent.”
AOC is brilliant, but what she fails to mention (although I am sure she is aware) is that the purpose of the Democrats’ campaigns is not so much to elect candidates as to generate revenue for the DC consulting class that dominates the Party establishment.
And the fact is that canvassing and digital advertising are just too inexpensive and cost-efficient compared to old fashioned but very expensive TV and direct mail.
For example: there is no way that the Democrats could have set fire to $100 million in Jaime Harrison’s failed South Carolina Senate race by going digital. Nor could…
