On Instagram, Ocasio-Cortez got real about the threats that Trump’s presidency is likely to pose and said ‘there’s just a certain cache and reward to being an a--hole’ — including on the left.

Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed Trump’s election win, urging Democrats to move past infighting and post-election rancor to focus on preparing for potential impacts of his presidency, such as tariffs, mass deportations, and censorship.

She criticized some Democrats for blaming the loss on “identity politics,” despite Trump’s campaign centering on white racial grievance and calls for white men to turn out. Ocasio-Cortez pointed to moderate voices like Reps. Tom Suozzi and Seth Moulton, who argued that supporting trans rights hurt Democrats, as misguided.

She encouraged people to engage in direct communication and join physical communities to combat despair and build resilience.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    567·
    9 days ago

    She’s talking about “moderates” who are trying to blame it on defense of LGBTQ…

    Because surely what the Dem party needs to do is move further to the fucking right and abandon the Dem voter base.

    Despite the fact that Trump ran a campaign steeped in white racial grievance and the fact that MAGA influencers were literally calling for white men — specifically — to get out to the polls, some commentators have resorted to tired takes about Kamala Harris losing because the party leaned too much into “identity politics.”

    The Democratic ticket didn’t actually lean into identity politics, but some in the party have settled on that line of thought as well — such as Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., and Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who suggested that Democrats’ support for trans people’s rights helped spell their doom this cycle.

    We can’t keep electing “moderates” just because the wealthy, corporations, and foreign governments like Israel keep giving them hundreds of millions of dollars

    Shit, if anything that should be a reason we don’t vote for them.

    This a class war going on, and the only side fighting it is the wealthy.

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      9 days ago

      abandon the Dem voter base.

      I’m Ok with that at this point. The Dem voting base is just liberal Republicans at this point. It’s time for something else.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        64·
        9 days ago

        The Dem voting base is just liberal Republicans at this point.

        No it’s not.

        They’re a very small but vocal amount of Dem voters.

        But they’re not the problem, they voted R against Obama and Obama still flipped red states in 08.

        Not only are they not the voting base, the party literally doesn’t need them.

        The problem is those people run the freaking DNC, and are the ones that keep dragging the party right.

        The problem is party leadership and the solution is changing party leadership.

        Not doubling down on party leadership to further piss off the Dem voter base.

        • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          I don’t fully agree with this, but I agree with enough of it that it doesn’t really matter. To add to it, now is the ideal time to push for reform in party leadership, after a major loss.

    • bigmaple9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      310·
      9 days ago

      I’m liberal and voted blue. I think we have gone off the deep end for trans. 100% for non hate, but I would like girls to be able to play sports without allowing former boys.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        9 days ago

        If that was a large issue you’d have a point. But it’s almost never happening. There are just very very few examples of boys transitioning to girls while being on puberty blockers long enough to compete as a girl and then dominating.

        It’s a made up problem.

        But the right won’t just stop at “girls sports” they’re going after adults who have never played a sport in their lives.

        But even tho the trans population in it’s entirety is still a small amount of people, that doesn’t mean it’s ok to abandon them.

        Start abandoning subgroups and the larger group won’t be strong enough to protect you when the fascists come for one of the subgroups you belong to.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_…

        Obviously defending the innocent from fascism should be reason enough, but you’re literally saying it’s not enough, so I have to appeal to the selfish need for self preservation most humans have.

        Empathy sadly needs to be learned, so not everyone has it.