The position puts her at odds with some on the left, such as Rep. Ro Khanna, another potential 2028 contender, who said he wants to find “common ground” with people like Greene.
In a conversation Friday at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics moderated by David Axelrod, the onetime political strategist to President Barack Obama, a student asked Ocasio-Cortez whether she stood by past remarks that there were “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers at the core of the House of Representatives caucus” and, if so, why she worked with some of them.
Ocasio-Cortez did stand by them and said she wasn’t scared of reaching across the aisle, holding up her work with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. But she set a clear boundary.
“I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven bigot and antisemite, on the issue of what is good for Gazans and Israelis,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don’t think it benefits our movement in that instance to align the left with white nationalists. I don’t think it serves us.”
Yeah this doesn’t really excuse AOC’s poor positioning on Israel while a genocide was happening. This is a complete strawman on AOC’s part and the hogs are just eating it up. And thats a problem because instead of working to improve her own political instincts on this issue, she’s enlisting a terminally online army of sportsfans to white-knight for her.
The fact is AOC did bad on Israel and funding Israel while a genocide was happening. A blind dog like MTG finding a bone eventually has no bearing on AOC doing very poorly on these issues. And judging by the ratios in this thread, the hogs have spoken.
I interpreted AOC’s refusal to support Taylor-Greene’s proposal to cut funding to Israel as a personal grudge not based in what may ultimately do good, but rather refusing to give someone she despises on a personal level any sort of credit. I am saying this as a criticism, not an excuse.
I would support the devil himself it meant less funding for Israel. If you don’t want to give the right any victories on Israel, then push the left to be better! But tbh that doesn’t even really strike me as AOC’s real reasoning, I just think she really hates MTG.
100% and my view of this threads is just the hogs eating it up.
AOC was wrong with her votes and her making this about MTG instead of about stopping genocide: its not gonna work.