Tim Miller

So that's just a great quote.

And one can imagine her stomping JD Vance.

I'm putting my money on AOC in that fight every day of the week.

Here's what I'm not going to do, Tim.

As somebody who...

can you know remember when republicans were on the outside looking in 2012 they're writing all these memos about how you know they're not going to be in the white house for another 20 30 years unless they you know come back to the middle on immigration on civil rights on women yeah i wrote the memo okay all right just say i didn't want to i didn't i didn't want to call you out but there's that

But I've learned and grown, okay?

I've learned and grown.

That's life.

And then a few short years later, we're in the Trump era that seems locked into the future and has taken over our culture entirely.

Nobody took Donald Trump seriously as a candidate then.

I remember...

that there was this junior senator from Illinois with a name that no one could pronounce, who everyone thought maybe could run for president 20 years after his speech in 2004.

And at a time when Democrats were crestfallen following the loss of John Kerry, again, thought they were going to be in the wilderness forever.

And this junior senator becomes president and is seen as a transformational figure in American history.

So we are so far away from being able to project who can be successful and who won't be in 2028.

You and I can't even imagine what that campaign is actually going to get litigated on.

Let's turn the corner on 2026 and see where Americans are at with the economy, in the broader culture, what AI is doing to how we communicate with one another and see if there's somebody who emerges who has a talent for taking advantage of the new modes of communication

I'm an unapologetic, huge AOC fan, and I would ask your readers to pay some attention to the op-ed that she and Senator Tina Smith co-authored in the New York Times about six months ago about social housing in America to alleviate the affordability in housing crisis.

It shows a thoughtfulness there and an engagement in the space of ideas that's going to be really essential for all of us to get past this MAGA moment.