AOC: Why do we listen to people who lost elections as if they are experts in winning elections?

[Celerity]

229. she is right, and if we try and lurch even more to the right it will be disastrous

I already have seen some advocate a more rightward tack (couched in the disingenuous 'centrist' verbiage), and at some point, we will blow out vast swathes of the farthest left third to half of the Dem voters in a futile attempt to round up and keep centre right moderate Rethug types.

I say disingenuous for 'centrist' as the central axis of American politics is already so artificially skewed to the right of any other advanced western democratic nation. In the EU, many, many of our present Dems would be in centre right liberal parties (liberal is another term SO misused in the US, as in every other nation liberal is centre-right, as in free (never fair or rarely so) trade, pro-deregulation, pro big business, anti labour unions, semi laissez-faire etc). The Democrats who are labelled as far left would NEVER be considered that anywhere else. They would be bog standard, middle of the road centre-left to middle left social dems. None would be in am actual far left EU, etc party IF they kept their current stances.

Some of the most conservative Dems Cuellar for one, would be totally on the right overall, especially with hsi anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, forced-birther, and pro big oil and pro big prison stances) would be on the further right edge of the centre/right parties, and the average Rethug on the RW HALF (maybe 2/3rds to even 3/4ers) of the Rethug party would be considered a radical right winger nut job and borderline (full blown in many cases) neo nazi.

We simple HAVE to stop the rightward slide of the nation. Using US terminology, a centre to centre-right (in an American sense) neoliberal (both types, centre-left to centre and then right wing) corporatist, de-regulation pushing, big bank loving, further-wealth inequality-producing (a giant negative that WILL occur from this all) state will be a soft dystopian nightmare, even if it does not have the insane fascist (and christofascist), racist, violently misogynistic, and lack-of-the-rule-of-lawed environs that the Trumpian model spews out as the alternative from the right of the right of the right.