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(52,832 posts)Personally I love seeing her pull no punches and tell it like it is. I'm more pragmatic in terms of tactics, but I love her passion and vision and we need strong voices on the left like hers.
But the reality is that she doesn't speak for a massive bloc within the Democratic Party (though I expect she will someday in the not too distant future) and she's still a relative newcomer to the house.
For now, her amplified media presence allows republicans to paint democrats as out of touch and fundraise massively. Of course she is quite in touch with the needs and attitudes of her district, which is diverse, working class, and urban. But republicans can say it's out of touch because she doesn't try to appeal to the white rural districts that she doesn't represent.