Rep. AOC said that certain New York Democrats' choice to reject progressive campaigns to defund the police and instead amplify Republican narratives on crime and policing, actually ended up hurting them much more than a different approach.
that “Republicans put millions of dollars into defeating,” she said. Such a stiff hierarchical structure for the state Democratic Party has stifled progressive voices and favored the opinions of those at the top of the party like the governor and the party chair.
“You know, I can say: I’ve been in Congress for four years, I have never had a conversation with the New York State Democratic Party chair [Jay Jacobs] ever,” Ocasio-Cortez lamented. This has laid the groundwork for Republicans to swoop into the grassroots spaces that progressives would have occupied if they hadn’t been suppressed by Democratic leaders.
“In fact, [Jacobs has] done nothing but attack progressive Democrats all across the state,” she continued. “What he has done is created an environment where the only, quote unquote, or the main, quote unquote, legitimate Democratic candidates worthy of support are those who fight both progressives and Republicans, which is clearly not a winning strategy, especially not in the state of New York.”
The party hasn’t just been attacking progressives in public, Ocasio-Cortez said — it’s also been coordinating behind the scenes to undermine progressives and frame them as enemies of Democrats. This strategy is especially harmful to Democrats and progressives
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