Ocasio-Cortez pushed back against this on Sunday.
‘Not a single member of Congress that I’m aware of campaigned on socialism or defunding the police in this general election,’ she asserted. ‘And these were largely slogans or where they were demands from activist groups that we saw in the largest uprising in American history around police brutality. And so the question that we have is, how can we build in a more effective Democratic operation that is stronger and more resilient to Republican attacks?’ Ocasio-Cortez posed. ‘And I believe that there are many areas that we can point at in centralized Democratic operations that are extraordinarily weak. For example, our digital campaigning is very weak. And this is an area where Republicans are actually quite strong.’
biological clock ticking....
When The Times asked Ocasio-Cortez why she considered getting out of politics, she said there is a ‘lack of support’ from Democrats and that she has been labeled the ‘enemy.’
‘It’s the stress. It’s the violence. It’s the lack of support from your own party. It’s your own party thinking you’re the enemy,’ the New York City representative said. ‘When your own colleagues talk anonymously in the press and then turn around and say you’re bad because you actually append your name to your opinion.’
‘I chose to run for re-election because I felt like I had to prove that this is real,’ she said. ‘That this movement was real. That I wasn’t a fluke. That people really want guaranteed health care and that people really want the Democratic Party to fight for them.’
‘But I’m serious when I tell people the odds of me running for higher office and the odds of me just going off trying to start a homestead somewhere — they’re probably the same.’
Kudos to the GOP for one thing in this election: making “Democrats want to defund the police!” their version of “Republicans want to take away your Social Security!”