“Bernie’s supporters have been very, very damaging to him, and it’s really frustrating to see and experience. They don’t realize how influential they are. It’s frustrating to feel like they are hurting him,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the midst of the 2020 primary, according to the book. “I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate.”
She also worried that the behavior of Sanders’s supporters were “forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis” through their “behavior, not so much policy.”
Ocasio-Cortez made those comments as she mulled whether to endorse Sanders’s 2020 campaign, even though she had worked as an organizer on his 2016 campaign.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-bernie-bros-reactionary-left-wing-book-2023-12
It’s socialism or barbarism dawg
The left should take a leaf out of the right’s book, tbh, AOC is correct about that. The way that the right had that campaign to stamp out toxicity and mysogyny was really impressive stuff.
(Not that these things should be excused on the left just because the right does them, mind—I’m just bored of holier-than-thou-definitionally-right-leaning-libs preaching about progress while being not just part of the problem but the problem and also being complicit in trying to genocide Palestine.)
To say they should or should not be excused is to concede the premise that they exist as more than an MSNBC hit piece narrative in the first place.
The reality is that it was, as always is, projection from the right. The toxicity they were describing existed. They were Khive.