AOC has 11 million followers, a netflix documentary, and was on the cover of for Vanity fair. We are told "don't worry, she has no influence."

MTG (who is nuts) won @ single house seat in a crowded primary and the GOP establishment in exile says that MTG now owns the party. https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1356684730935173123

I don't dislike @DavidAFrench or @secupp, but I wish we could have some perspective. Yes, MTG is a nutty gasbag. That's bad.

But that misses the point: AOC is a cultural powerhouse who gets a pass from media on her radicalism becsise she shifts the overton window to the left

Using your radical fringe to move the overton window is an intentional strategy that comes out of left wing activist literature.

It's easy: amplify and echo the voices of those who take a position more radical than what you want so you look moderate by comparison:

They are very explicit about this and how it works. The fact that the right allows this to occur is a travesty.

Btw the left explicitly says policing your own side is a losers gam. This is why they don't call out AOC when she fabricates things.

But they raise hell about MTG

Now, MTG is nuts and ought to be primaried. However, allowing @secupp to declare that MTG owns the Republican Party is, to be frank, entirely irresponsible and an utter abdication of leadership.

Nothing empowers MTG like "serious" journalists telling people that MTG runs the GOP