just about everything on AOC's "agenda" is more Eisenhower socialist than "1920s commie."
I disagree.
Eisenhower never said that everyone should move here from every country. Eisenhower was not against large stores. Didn’t malls start around that time?
Eisenhower built infrastructure that gave people jobs, like a mini FDR. Eisenhower was a general; he did not say defund the police. He was not someone who helped “minorities”. ( In quotes because that is what people used to say. ) He kept the status quo. Jim crow, redlining....
He did not make wild claims, no rabble rousing slogans. He kept social things the way they were, but made infrastructure improvements. He provided for the soldiers of World War II, while “keeping people in their place.”
After World War II, we did not have an exemplary record allowing war affected immigrants to come here. I don’t know if that was more Truman than Eisenhower. I see Eisenhower more as a tepid (after ww2) peacemaker or placater.
AOC states things in an exaggerated way. She could learn from her opponents who cloak things in patriotic terms which appeal to their base. Freedom this, opportunity that... not no police so we have murders on every street corner, or let everyone move here so you lose your job. Eisenhower had a dad or grandfather vibe, not the annoying sister who you want to avoid at Thanksgiving.
