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[EarlG]

51. I know it's not

Which is kinda Ocasio-Cortez’s point. She’s saying we need to stop attacking each other and start working on better messaging that will defend the entire party against GOP talking points.

To get that started, members of our own party could do a better job of not buying into GOP messaging — ie. Abigail Spanberger immediately after the election saying that Democrats need to stop using the word “socialism.” Ocasio-Cortez pointed that no Democrat actually ran on “socialism.” Things like “defund the police” come from outside activist groups, they’re not Democratic Party positions. But when members of our own party buy into the GOP’s messaging, we’re basically doing their work for them.

And when we also buy into the media’s lazy framing of certain Democrats, we’re doing the same thing. The Guardian — not a RW paper — will get plenty of clicks out of this headline screaming “AOC calls Democrats incompetent!” and I’m sure a lot of discussion will be generated here over it.

But instead of talking about how we can unify and improve our messaging — which is what Ocasio-Cortez would like us to do — we’ll be arguing about whether she’s evil or not for saying something that she didn’t even really say, which will get us nowhere.