Interesting comment by AOC this morning

[Celerity]

92. Again, NO Democrats ran on Defund the Police, no Democrats ran on support of 'antifa' , by which I

mean antifa as defined by the right wing, in reality antifa is not an organised group, it is an idea against fascism via a diverse number of actions. No democrat ran on support of socialism, that is a RW construct.

The day we let the RW and the Rethugs falsely define what issues are 'commie/socialist/antifa', what issues are a priori evil blah balh blah, and then (we as a Party) actually proceed to self-regulate and purge all who believe and stand for things that the RW hates and falsely self-labels, is the day we are destroyed as a viable national party.

Imagine if we had done that with the civil rights movements. They (the RW) played the exact same tricks back then.

The minute you let your enemy define you to the point you start to do things that cater to that false labelling, you will be crushed. It will set up negative feedback loops that blow out vast swathes of our voting blocs. They simply will not turn out for people who say (in far more polite terms) 'fuck you' and yet then still demand their votes anyway.