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Ocasio-Cortez, who is often vilified by right-wing commentators, said she faced specific threats that day that made her fear for her life.The GameStop turmoil even drew the attention of House leaders. I was at a bar with my homies and we all were hyped about this sign of the changing times. Finally, we’re going to be represented by a woman of color with a fine ass political agenda. Now, some may be put off by Ocasio-Cortez’s association with the Democratic Socialists of America, but honestly?
One of the biggest stories leading into the virtual Democratic National Convention was that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the party’s most popular leftist under the age of 78 depending on how you classify Elizabeth Warren, was to be allotted only 60 seconds of speaking time. Given the regular sass directed at AOC and “The Squad” by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the mini-slot was interpreted as another insult to the younger, more progressive, and less white cohort of Dems that the institutional party tends to take for granted when it’s not overtly denouncing them to impress fiscally moderate Baby Boomers.
The actual convention, though—including Ocasio-Cortez’s Tuesday night remarks—should be taking the air out of those (understandable!) concerns. AOC, the left, and the youth vote are being treated as one part of a party that needs to maximize general election chances against a catastrophically inept incumbent—not the only part, but a part that is too important to ostracize.
There was no guarantee this would be the case. Four years ago, Bernie Sanders entered the convention on poor terms with Hillary Clinton, and his some of his delegates booed when he urged them to support her during his speech. But on Monday, Sanders, who endorsed Biden months ago, spoke in support of his former Senate colleague in intense, characteristically furious terms. He was able to point to several progressive Biden-platform goals—a $15 minimum wage, a clean electricity transition by 2035, universal pre-K starting at age 3—that were not part of Clinton’s campaign four years ago. The nation’s foremost crazy-eyed socialist even defended the DNC’s decision to feature Republican speakers at the convention, making a rare reference to his own personal life in doing so. Said Sanders: “Under this administration authoritarianism has taken root in our country. I, and my family, and many of yours, know the insidious way authoritarianism destroys democracy, decency, and humanity. As long as I am here, I will work with progressives, with moderates, and, yes, with conservatives to preserve this nation from a threat that so many of our heroes fought and died to defeat.” In 2020, he is on board with telling his people to listen up and join the fight.
This is the necessary context for Ocasio-Cortez’s Tuesday segment—which was, in fact, 90 seconds, and involved formally nominating Sanders rather than talking up Biden. (Convention rules require the formal nomination of anyone who reaches a certain delegate threshold, so this wasn’t an act of defiance on her part). It could have been longer! But it fit the pace of the night, and its rhetoric was even stronger than what Democrats are used to hearing from Sanders (who also appeared on Tuesday, amiably, in the background of the Vermont delegation’s on-location roll-call video). Ocasio-Cortez, in her words, is a participant in “a mass people’s movement working to establish 21st century social, economic, and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States; a movement striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia, and to propose and build reimagined systems of immigration and foreign policy that turn away from the violence and xenophobia of our past.”
Subversive stuff! And consider, after reading it, that as recently as 2004 the entire left of the Democratic party was embodied by Howard Dean, who wanted to balance the federal budget and had an “A” rating from the NRA. Bernie Sanders didn’t even attend a DNC until 2008. Twelve years later, the party is projecting comfort that it can accommodate envelope-pushing policy vision and representational diversity alongside the broadly targeted, feel-good American sepia stuff that Biden prefers. In addition to Sanders’ prominence and Ocasio-Cortez’s appearance, Warren is scheduled to speak Wednesday to (presumably) tear Wall Street a new one. The Monday night “party establishment” speaker, Michelle Obama, stated as fact that “a never-ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered” in the U.S. On Thursday, the convention will highlight a Black mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, whose city (Atlanta) is prosecuting several police officers for inappropriate use of force against Black citizens. On Tuesday, two central broadcast segments—a montage of 17 “rising star” figures that culminated with an appearance by Stacey Abrams, and the surprisingly inspiring states-and-territories roll call—highlighted regular, idealistic Democrats, young and old, from all across the country.
The danger that AOC’s small role foretold was that the convention was going to be a turgid, turnout-depressing platform for vague, CEO-friendly generalities about progress. That sort of thing is a long way from being eradicated from the party—Pete Buttigieg did show up Tuesday, and will be back on Thursday. But these days he has to share the stage.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), one of the few centrist Democrats in Washington, D.C., leveled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday during an interview with The New York Times, which came in response to her trolling him on Twitter last month.
“I guess she put the dagger stare on me,” Manchin said. “I don’t know the young lady — I really don’t. I never met her. I’m understanding she’s not that active with her bills or in committee. She’s more active on Twitter than anything else.”
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The New York Times noted that Manchin’s words constituted “a sharp insult” because in the U.S. Senate “legislative prowess is prized.”
Manchin’s words came after Ocasio-Cortez trolled him on Twitter in mid-November over his pushback against the far-left portion of the Democrat Party.
“Defund the police? Defund, my butt,” Manchin wrote on Twitter last month. “I’m a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans’ jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded by posting a picture of her glaring at him during the 2019 State of the Union address.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 12, 2020
“We’re not going to defund the police, we’re not for the new green deal,” Manchin later added in the interview. “That’s not going to happen. We’re not for Medicare for All — we can’t even pay for Medicare for some.”
Manchin has previously mocked Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” which experts have said could cost up to $93 trillion.
“It’s not a deal. It’s a dream,” Manchin told CNN last year. “And that’s fine. People should have dreams, in the perfect world what they would like to see. I got to work with the realities, and I got to work the practical, what I have in front of me. I got to make sure our country has affordable, dependable, reliable energy 24/7. But you can’t just be a denier and say, ‘Well, I’m not going to use coal. I’m not going to use natural gas. I’m not going to use oil.’”
“And you have to understand also the climate, we talk about global climate, Chris, it’s the globe. It’s not North American climate,” Manchin continued. “It’s not the United States climate. It’s the globe. How do we bring on China and India and everybody else who are great users of carbon right now, and polluters of carbon, to be carbon-free also, by using technology?”
Manchin triggered the hard Left last month when he committed to stopping the progressive wing of the Democrat Party if Democrats manage to win both of the U.S. Senate races in Georgia next month. If they win, the Senate would result in a 50-50 tie that a Vice President Kamala Harris could break, thus effectively giving Democrats the majority.
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Manchin made the remarks during an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, who asked Manchin about a recent comment from Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. Schumer said late last week that the Democrats will “change America” if they win two run-off Senate races in Georgia.
“Well, there’s a lot of people that are concerned. There’s a lot of fear tactics that are being used right now,” Manchin said. “If both of the Georgia senators were elected from the Democratic Party, then that would be 50/50, if both Dan Sullivan and Thom Tillis win; 50/50 means there’s a tie. But if one senator does not vote on the Democratic side, there is no tie and there is no bill.”
“So, I commit to you tonight and I commit to all of your viewers and everyone else that’s watching, I want to lay those fears, I want to rest those fears for you right now, because, when they talk about whether it be packing the courts or ending the filibuster, I will not vote to do that,” Manchin continued. “I will not vote to pack the courts. I think — and I will not vote to end the filibuster. Bret, this system, the Senate, this so unique body in the world, it was made to work together in a bipartisan way. And once you start breaking down those barriers, then you lose every reason that we are the institution that we are, the most deliberative body.”
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“So, I want to lay those fears to rest, that that won’t happen, because I will not be the 50th Democrat voting to end that filibuster or to basically stack the court,” he added. “And then all the other things you’re hearing about, Bret, also, is — defund the police. I don’t know of any of the Democrats in the caucus that are for defunding the police. We are not for that whatsoever. And when they talk about basically Medicare for All, we can’t even pay for Medicare for some. It doesn’t make any sense at all. We have got to fix the Affordable Care Act we have. And I think our Republican — moderate Republicans will work with us to now repair what needs to be repaired.”
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