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.”
Empty G is still full blown MAGA, she just recognizes that Trump is heading for the exit soon, and as in all Cults of Personality, there is no #2. She’s angling to be the new MAGA leader, attracting those who have soured on Trump, as well as weak-willed Trad Dems, to give her an edge over those that only draw from MAGA.
Don’t fall for it, she’s still the same psychopath she’s always been. Hating Trump is a low bar, she’s going to have to do better than that.
Yeah, well said
I don’t think it’s all that nefarious.
I think she was a true believer up until she started forcefully being exposed to all the info and having good reason to pay attention to it.
And it’s not hard to figure out that it’s all bullshit.
Regardless, she’s still the “Jewish Space Lasers” person, and I don’t see why Democrats would be tempted to trust her on anything.
Greene just doesn’t care about holding her job enough to carry Trump’s bullshit once she recognizes it as bullshit. That’s why she’s going to be out of politics like every other Republican who wouldn’t carry Trump’s bullshit and therefore are no longer in office.
Nah, she’s STILL a true believer, she’s just separated MAGA from Trump, which is something very few politicians have done publicly, and very, very few voters have done.
It’s going to backfire. If MAGAs can’t vote for Trump, they’re going to want to vote for whoever Trump endorses, and it ain’t gonna be her.
It’ll be easy to prove me wrong. I just don’t think she’s that ambitious. She’s already got hers, right? I, personally, gave her thousands of dollars (sold index funds as she bought on insider knowledge), and she has healthcare for life.