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Exactly.
Americans chose a felon rapist clown fascist over HIGHLY qualified women. Twice.
America is not even close to being ready for a female president.
If we want to lose again, run a woman. That's the shit reality in this shitty country.
Not to mention AOC is still "green". Clinton was a Senator, a Secretary of State, and ex-first lady. Kamala was a VP. AOC is just a member of the House.
People need to stop fantasizing and get real. It's also WAY too early to seriously be talking about this.
I remember bullshit like this being spewed about Obama, too. "Obama is too green!" "a black man could NEVER be president. We have never had one before, after all!" (Or are you too young to remember that? I forget there are adults on here now who weren't even 2-years-old when he was elected.)
... Cue him defeating 2 white successful men by large margins. Doh. Think this through and stop parroting wedge-driving sexist gatekeeping conservative propaganda.
How many black candidates lost to white candidates in a post-primary presidential race?
That's right, zero.
How many female candidates have lost to male candidates in a post-primary presidential race?
Two, or in other words, all of them.
You can make an argument to say that there was racist gatekeeping back when Obama was running, and that was absolutely true, but we never actually had a situation where a political party fronted a black man and lost. We actually do have data that shows that America rejected a female presidential candidate twice. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that America simply isn't socially developed enough to be capable of looking past the misogyny and we should take that into consideration if our goal is to win.
So we should run only run black men since your shitty understanding of statistics dictates they have a 100% chance to win.
I never said that, but have fun arguing with the strawman you worked so hard to build up.