I'm not AOCs biggest fan, and I'm not AOCs biggest hater. I wish more representatives voted present or abstain or whatever more often. I also wish twitter would shut the up.
Middle ground is an acceptable position when you represent a diverse community, more people need to be able to appreciate that.
This is far from the only intra-left disagreement. Assuming the Democratic left were to get anywhere with her around, she’d have to handle much more salient dilemmas (e.g. NIMBYism vs “gentrification” arguments or climate policy vs anti-imperialism).
The scene she made over this indicates her leadership qualities in such a scenario would be poor. I’d have more respect if she’d calmly voted present without the song and dance.
