Rep. Ro Khanna said that “many” in the House Democratic caucus, including himself, will back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Tuesday’s vote.

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    4 days ago

    Except she spent the last election cycle mocking third parties and saying you need to ‘build coalitions’ by working within the party

    If this is what she got for her support of Israel and ‘working within the party’, then I think she might have been taken for a ride

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      Like how Bernie “worked with” the Dems by bending the knee to Hillary after the 2016 primary?

      Yeah idk why the progressives think they can work with the right wing obstructionists that are the Democratic party.

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      Except she spent the last election cycle mocking third parties and saying you need to ‘build coalitions’ by working within the party

      She is right. Divide and conquer is a super effective strategy, the left loves doing the divide part to itself then acts shocked when it gets conquered.

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          So make yourself smaller, less relevant, less resources but ideologically pure. Not exactly a winning formula. You go to war with the army you’ve got, not the army you wish you had.

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            When the army you have sabotages you at every turn you absolutely do remove the obstructive elements. The modern Democratic party will simply never allow leftists to have any kind of political power. That’s not how they roll, and by the time anything change America will have went full autocrat or starved to death.

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      Unfortunately not the first time AOC’s “learned” this lesson. See? She is a great Dem, learn nothing and do it again.