A Democrat strategist has brutally compared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s popularity to ‘OnlyFans culture’ as she attempts to rally the broken left.
Julian Epstein, former House Judiciary Committee Democratic chief counsel, unleashed the scathing remarks during an appearance on Newsmax Friday.
When host Rob Finnerty suggested the 35-year-old congresswoman might be the ‘real deal’ for the ailing Democratic Party, Epstein didn’t hold back.
‘She’s the real deal,’ Finnerty said. ‘She’s got millions of followers on social media, she’s young, attractive. she’s packing arenas. We treat her like she’s on idiot on the right but the left did the same thing to Donald Trump … I think she’s for-real.’
In response, Epstein boldly shot down the statement, stating: ‘I don’t. I disagree with that. I think she’s got incredible appeal within the progressive bubble.
‘But I don’t think she has broad appeal beyond that. I don’t think she has appealed to the centrists of the party and certainly not a majority of the American electorate.’
Epstein didn’t stop there. He labeled the current Democratic Party brand as ‘toxic’ while claiming they are ‘no longer responding to voters.’
He said: ‘AOC highlights what I think is becoming the culture, which is it’s becoming an OnlyFans type of culture.’
OnlyFans is a platform used by more than three million people, where creators – usually sexual in nature – can provide exclusive content to paying customers.
Epstein used the comparison to the raunchy site to show that he believes AOC has a ‘narrow’ fan base, rather than a mainstream electoral appeal.
He added: ‘These politicians are interested in appealing increasingly to a narrow cast of online activists, donors, foundations, activists who will all exalt them as heroes within the progressive movement, all of whom depend on this identity grievance politics, but it doesn’t have broad appeal.’
‘I think while she’s very popular within progressive activist circles, I don’t see the appeal being wider than that,’ he concluded.
The clip made its rounds on X, formerly Twitter, with one user agreeing with Epstein claiming: ‘Indeed, AOC is super appealing to the Blue Base, but beyond that she is toxic.’
Another user slammed the congresswoman, writing: ‘Everything about her is fake.’
Others called out Epstein, saying: ‘Per diem ‘consultant ‘ running his mouth on right wing propaganda network.’
The scathing critique comes as polling guru Nate Silver predicted that Democrats will choose Ocasio-Cortez as their 2028 presidential nominee.
Silver made the bold claim in a video for his Silver Bulletin Substack Wednesday alongside journalist Galen Druke, who actually brought up AOC as a viable contender first.
‘That was going to be my f***ing pick!’ Silver exclaimed. ‘We both are on the AOC bus.’
Silver explained that he picked AOC ‘because of some of the polling, because she has this kind of progressive lane, probably not to herself, because she is younger and media savvy.’
He pointed to polls that showed her leading Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer should she try to challenge him for his New York Senate seat.
Silver said he thought this could mean that she has appeal beyond the progressive left as New York Democrats are actually ‘a pretty moderate lot.’
‘I think there’s a lot of points in her favor at this very moment,’ Druke argued. ‘In a Yale poll just out late week, AOC has the highest net favorability rating of any of the Democrats that they asked about.’
Ocasio-Cortez had a 62 percent positive rating among Democrats in the survey, with former Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, trailing her slightly.
Druke noted that this means that AOC ‘has broad appeal across the Democratic Party.’
‘She has very fervent support,’ he added – something that could come in her favor should she announce a presidential run and get through a crowded primary field.
‘I think a lot of people are gonna run in 2028 and it’s going to be a contest for attention and getting those sort of people who might be in your boat to turn out and stay with you through thick and thin, and I think that’s Ocasio-Cortez,’ Druke said.
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