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.”
Trust? Trust what? Agree with her when she says something we agree with? I disagree. And I also don’t trust Cortez. But I don’t have to, we aren’t voting MTG into the presidency here, we are supporting or rejecting her defection to the good guys, because half the left are sheep that Israel plays like a fucking fiddle.
I’m talking about you all.
MTG supported Israel right up until Trump ruined her reputation in the party. She wasn’t remotely shy about her support either. Now she doesn’t? I mean we can support her current disdain, but she’s obviously not authentic in her stance.
And AOC endorsed Joe Biden. What is your point? This is not about trust. This is only about opposing Israel.
Dunno why she supported them in the first place, what with them being the number one manufacturer of space lasers she was so scared of.
Because fascists, at least at the time, viewed support for other ethnostates as a means to an end for their own goals. Their opinion turned on a dime because it was no longer a popular and largely positive example of an ethnostate working, at least in the mind of Americans, who she wants to appeal to.
I believe she is authentic, she was a true believer.
Regardless we need to win over more people, including and especially in red country. Rejecting defectors is something the administration and their allies pay influence agents to get us to do.
“This grifter wants to defect, so you need to visually be seen supporting them so that their patsies know they can defect too” Bro, she’s a grifter, which is why she’s not let into the club. Don’t scam people for personal gain and of course you’re welcome. We don’t need to be idiots about this.
I don’t agree at all, and think you are being played by the right wing/Israeli superfans.
You don’t get in bed with antisemites because the zionists conflated zionism with semitism. It’s not goddamn rocket science.
You’re literally falling for the same shit that communists did when they helped elect Hitler into power.
The fact you use that terminology makes me question your understanding. You do realize Arabs are semetic?
Yeah, no fuck. You got an actual argument or you just wanna point out obvious shit?
“Question your understanding” says the fuck trying to clean up MTG’s image for free
Edit: “Zionists conflated zionism with semitism” was a clever way of saying “zionists claim that criticizing zionism is antisemitic”.
You do not win over people who are delusional by playing into their delusions, you acknowledge their delusions and explain it in another way. These people who believe thousands of lies from talking heads mostly got there by not being forced to acknowledge their shortcomings, whether it be about their tribalism, paranoia, guilt, or outright bigotry, it was because those views preexisted and were coddled. Most of the people who want to reach out to conservatives so bad can only fathom doing so by throwing the smallest victim under the bus. Fuck that