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I take pride in every down vote I'm getting in this thread for bringing up a well reasoned and consistent critique of AOC, and then watching which emotional reactionary decide that this means I hate AOC, when I litterally volunteered for her campaign in 2018.
Her political instincts have been shown to be bad too many times. The Israel vote was one example among many. And I'm ceding that she did get to the right place eventually. But someone who is only right "eventually" isn't someone you want as president, at least not ideally, and right now, in the pre-pre-pre-primary phase, that's when we talk about "ideally".
And the criticism on Israel isn't even how it all ended, because eventually she got the right place. It's about how she got there, and how she allowed herself to be outflanked by MTG of all the shitty people in the world. If you are a progressive and your political instincts result in you getting out flanked from the left by MTG, you have bad instincts.
Why does AOC get a pass for funding a genocide mid genocide when no other progressives found it challenging to get the issue rate from the start?
Why does AOC a pass decisions we regularly criticize liberals for?
Ilhan Omar didn't vote to find hard to get those votes right. Omar has faaar better political instincts than AOC.