The Thanksgiving Tweet That Could Cost an Election | Filtered with TJ Walker

Could Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually become president in 2028? Republicans may be rooting for AOC to win the Democratic nomination, convinced she would be easy to beat—but TJ Walker argues they may want to remember how Democrats once felt about Donald Trump in 2016.On today’s Filtered, TJ looks at AOC’s political strengths, her mastery of social media, and why conventional wisdom about “electability” is often spectacularly wrong.Then: the University of Michigan is experimenting with pass/fail grading for freshmen to reduce stress. TJ has a different prescription—keep the grades and take away the smartphones. Are phones, social media, online gambling and disappearing face-to-face interaction doing far more damage to college students than grades ever could?Finally, Wisconsin politics delivers perhaps the ultimate example of political distraction: a candidate facing backlash over an old tweet criticizing Thanksgiving. TJ asks why voters obsess over culture-war trivia while problems involving jobs, schools, debt and affordability go unresolved.Filtered with TJ Walker — politics, culture and current events without the usual partisan filter.