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The Left's PR Problem
Published March 2026
Full disclosure, from the time I was about eighteen years old, with my little understanding of politics at that time (I am forty-five today), I made a conscious decision to declare myself center of the aisle. In other words, straight-down-the-middle-independent. At that time, nearing the end of the Clinton administration with all of its controversies (which seem tame considering today’s mess), I knew that there were some positions that I firmly agreed with liberals on, and some things that deep in my bones, I ran staunchly conservative. This mindset obviously affected my voting habits. I could not align with any particular political party. If a candidate ran and promoted policy which connected with my beliefs, then that’s the person I voted for. Many times, I’d vote third party. To provide more context, I am also a black man with immigrant and mixed-race roots. No this does not make me special in any way, but I want to add transparency and context.
So with this, I paid particular attention the fairly recent exchange between AOC and Steven Miller. These are two people that I do not particularly care for, and it has much to do with both of their personalities, public gaffes, and some of their positions on policy. To be clear, I’m not saying that they’re all the way horrible, and what they mean to their constituents, but with each blunder, I’m finding it harder to cringe without creating dozens of new wrinkles (and lord knows I have enough of those).
If you’ve been under a boulder for the last few months and are oblivious to their verbal sparring last Fall, Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, former bartender and affluent suburbanite turned congresswoman and former White House aide Stephen Miller traded jabs with AOC starting off by calling him a clown, accusing him of insecure masculinity, mocked him for being 4’10 (thought he is a foot taller than that, not that it matters), and urged her followers to laugh at him Miller quickly fired back in a Fox news interview saying “her brain didn’t work” and called her a “trainwreck . Letting the retort roll off of her back, Cortez latter tweeted her satisfying disbelief that the news anchor made him watch the clip which commenced the back-and-forth.
Now seriously, the ad-hominem attacks were nothing less than sophomoric and beneath the both of them considering they both went to prestigious institutions and pride themselves on being on higher moral ground (Miller went to Duke
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