This is the time for Democrats to unify, not take positions in a circular firing squad as many did during the 2016 presidential cycle that saw the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton camps undermining one another.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez may be rocking the boat a bit in ways it needs to be rocked, but she is anything but subversive.
Ocasio-Cortez supported Nancy Pelosi's speakership as infighting from conservative Democrats dogged the new majority coming into Congress.
And colleagues agree Ocasio-Cortez is cooperative.
Rep. Meeks commented:
"I can only tell you that the times I've spoken to her, and at the times she's been at the New York delegation meetings, she's been cooperative and wants to be a team player. That's what she said, so you gotta take her at her word until something changes."
At this time next year there are bound to be quite a few congressional colleagues (and some not-so-congressional) taking shots at one another to distinguish themselves for the nomination.
We are all team blue. Some are bluer than others, but sniping only makes us appear fragmented. We are supposed to be the party of ideas. Let's put those ideas together so we can get that god-awful current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue skulking back to his Manhattan penthouse ASAP.
Or prison, which would be even better.
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