Edward Seward Grant

Praying for all liberals still stuck in Hillary Clinton psychosis

I am SAT 🍿

Everyone's dunking on Briahna’s take, but I think people are massively underestimating what some voters will do, either out of spite or out of a genuine belief that the system only changes once its contradictions become impossible to ignore. And for people who value authenticity above almost everything else, someone like AOC is a uniquely difficult figure to stomach. To them, she represents years of branding, sharp rhetoric, and performative opposition that rarely translated into meaningful confrontation with power when the stakes were highest. On Gaza specifically, a lot of people feel she moved only once the political risk had already shifted. Then you add the “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” comment on top of it, and whatever credibility remained with that crowd took a serious hit. That’s why Briahna brought up Tucker. Not because he’s morally better. Not because people suddenly forgot everything he’s said or done. The opposite, actually. His record is public, obvious, and extensively documented, which ironically makes some people read him as more genuine, even if genuinely awful. And once politics becomes a contest between someone viewed as performative and someone viewed as sincere, a portion of the electorate will choose the latter every single time. Keep in mind that, when it comes to Gaza optics specifically, people are comparing someone who said Biden-Harris were “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” against someone who has publicly platformed Palestinian voices and even visited Palestinian amputees all the way in Qatar. Whether people think that comparison is fair is almost beside the point. The comparison is already happening. And because this is Twitter: this is not an endorsement of Tucker Carlson; it’s an explanation of how I understood Briahna’s point. You can dismiss it if you want, but if these dynamics keep getting ignored and 2028 goes sideways, nobody gets to act surprised.