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.

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.”

  • Beans@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    I look at what is happening with Greene and can’t help but think of this as something akin to cancel culture. While I align closer with AOC than MTG, I’m not sure distancing yourself from somebody like Greene - who has genuinely started changing their views despite her Bill Burr style rhetoric stating she’s not changing and has always thought like this - is helpful to your cause. I think it could do a few things like alienate potential partners, keep Greene from moving closer to you on the spectrum, etc. and none of them are particularly good.

    I think all we can really do is welcome Greene over with open arms. Now, I’m tempered because I’m not sure she will shift any farther than where she is now, but I think alienating her is a good way to keep her as your enemy. And I don’t need more of those. Frankly, I applaud Green for this last year she’s spent in the ire of Trump. It take courage to speak out. And now that she is speaking out we want to alienate her? I don’t like that, even knowing that welcoming her over will come with a lot of strain.

    Edit: I’m gonna stand by what I’m saying and say you are exactly who this message is for. No one is perfect, and I’m not saying she hasn’t done or isn’t doing some horrible stuff. That has nothing to do with what I said. What I said was that casting her aside just hurts all of us because we are alienating people who are trying to change. Think back to who you were as a teen or even ten years ago, did you like who you were? We’ve all done horrible shit. We aren’t magically better people. This is like telling an addict to get help, then when they do, we tell them we can’t have them on our lives because they used to do drugs.