Oh no, don't get me wrong, my argument isn't "We should compromise and go further right", it's more "If we can grab someone who hasn't had a smear campaign run on them for half a decade, we should." I'd love to see AOC in the White House, I just worry that the well has already been poisoned, so to speak, for half a decade now. She's been the GOP boogeyman #1 for some time, and some of that soaks through to 'centrist' swing voters, unfortunately.