Why AOC lost secret ballot for a seat on powerful House committee

[OneBro]

70. True, but AOC took her seat from a 10-term sitting Democrat.

By some logic, the only way for AOC to truly be a good Democrat was for her to have never challenged Crowley in the first place. While newbies like AOC are bound to make more mistakes, it's ironic that the complaints are generally about how they aren't playing by the rules of the old guard, i.e. the people who were on guard for the decades and decades that got us to this point in politics.

I get that primarying Democrats in seats vulnerable to flipping to republican is more than a little unsavory. I too would yell and plead DON'T DO IT!, but if the suggestion is that the next generation is inherently bad because it is bucking the old guard, I suggest having to re-interview for the position and argue one's merit isn't always a bad thing. Don't tell me what you did 10, 20, 30 years ago that was so amazing. Tell me what you did in the last 2 sessions.

AOC is raising hell among many who prefer to just raise a little heck. After 4 years of Trump and decades of McConnell, hundreds of newly robed, right wing federal judges, and with OAN and Newsmax ready to show FoxNews how fascism is really done, some say now is not the time to fight the old guard.

When, then?