Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party
“So I need my colleagues to understand that we are not the
enemy,. And that their base is not the enemy. That the Movement for
Black Lives is not the enemy, that Medicare for all is not the enemy. This
isn’t even just about winning an argument. It’s that if they keep going after
the wrong thing, I mean, they’re just setting up their own obsolescence.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticised the Democratic party for incompetence in a no-holds-barred, post-election interview with the New York Times, warning that if the Biden administration does not put progressives in top positions, the party would lose big in the 2022 midterm elections. Signaling that the internal moratorium in place while the Democrats worked to defeat Donald Trump was over, the leftwing New York representative sharply rejected the notion advanced by some Democrats that progressive messaging around the Movement for Black Lives and the Green New Deal led to the party’s loss of congressional seats in last week’s election.
The real problem, said Ocasio-Cortez, was that the party lacked “core competencies” to run campaigns. “There’s a reason Barack Obama built an entire national campaign apparatus outside of the Democratic National Committee,” she told the Times’ Astead Herndon. “And there’s a reason that when he didn’t activate or continue that, we lost House majorities. Because the party – in and of itself – does not have the core competencies, and no amount of money is going to fix that.”...
