We’re more than halfway through the summer and with the midterm elections drawing closer, the liberal media have been desperate to continue the Democratic Party’s “blue wave” narrative despite a booming economy and improving poll numbers. And during Sunday’s This Week on ABC, host Martha Raddatz wondered how the Democrats planned to “counter” the voters who approved of the conservative things President Trump had done for the country.

Before Raddatz’s asked her ridiculous question, Washington Post national correspondent Mary Jordan spoke about how many voters had a dual attitude when it came to President Trump. “[T]hey like Trump, but as they say, he may not be a good man but he's a good president,” she explained.

According to Jordan, many voters had a “discomfort” about Trump when it came to all the controversies surrounding him and his style rubbed them the wrong way, “but they will vote for him; they're saying as of today because of conservative judges, tax cuts, lower regulation and that to them is what he's doing is why they're still on his side.”

After hearing that, Raddatz seemed befuddled and turned to New York Times editorial writer Mara Gay to help understand the situation. “Then how do you counter that,” Raddatz wondered. “And I've seen that on the road. Mary and I have talked about this too. I've seen that on the road as well. ‘I don't care about Russia, I don't care about the tweets.’ He's a means to an end.”

Gay’s solution was for Democrats to double down on their socialist pipedream that bankrupts counties and bankrupts the future for generations. Her poster child for the push was New York Democratic candidate and staunch socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“Well, the big unknown, I think, is whether the Democratic and liberal energy in the country right now will actually translate into electoral victories,” Gay opined as she boasted about people getting more political. “Our primary contest in New York with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that really suggests a level of participation in races where many voters didn’t participate before.”

Raddatz seemed unsure about elevating Ocasio-Cortez and asked if she and other candidates like her were “taking the party too far to the left”. But Gay insisted that her politics were the future for the Democratic Party:

But I actually think that Democrats have an opportunity to define themselves. And frankly, the Republican Party has gone so far to the right that some of the things that candidates like Ocasio-Cortez are calling for, better paid leave policies, these are not necessarily radical things. They may work just as well in Alabama.

“I think Democrats really should consider doubling down on their base,” Gay added.

ABC Political Director Rick Klein then chimed in to tout how Ocasio-Cortez represented something larger than just the coming “progressive wave”. She also represented a wave of women opposed to Trump. “There's a pink wave, records number of female candidates (…) and a lot of that I think gets to this engagement of women in this election where President Trump is just such a polarizing and energizing force,” he hyped.

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