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She said it tastes like medicine!!!

You really cannot tell whether they do know that or not. When confronted with evidence of their own racist statements, some right-wingers will double down on it and say it doesn't matter, or things of that sort. This suggests that they either don't know racism is wrong or they don't care. Others, however, will do almost anything they can to avoid admitting that their behavior is racist, and this suggests to me that they actually know that racism really is wrong. I'm not sure which is true. Please help me out here.

No. I don’t think a Harris/AOC or AOC/Harris ticket would defeat Vance/Rubio or Rubio/Vance, largely because AOC’s longstanding association with the DSA would tie that Democratic ticket to a socialist movement whose new national program goes far beyond ordinary progressive policy. The DSA explicitly promotes “Feminism For All,” calls for a new constitution and democratic socialist republic, and proposes abolishing the Senate and Electoral College while replacing the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary subordinate to Congress. I think once those positions became a major focus of a national campaign, they would be a serious liability with voters who want to preserve our existing constitutional system.