So far the Democrats are all over the place but there are a few who have found their voices. I wrote about Chris Murphy’s excellent twitter videos the other day. But no one does it like AOC.
The following is from Evan Hurst at Wonkette:
This week AOC, as she is known in the world of initials, hopped on Insta Live, and it sounds like she’s going to do it every week in this new era, maybe more. We watched every bit of it, and we think it may be our first weekly assignment of the era of Stupid Hitler, to help keep us connected, to keep us focused, and to keep us sane.
This is part of what she said:
This is the United States of America. And I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal. In this country, we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational, defining thing.
Two of probably the most foundational, defining things about American history is that we beat the Confederates and we beat the Nazis. And I don’t know what side people may be on today, but I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis. And I will do that until I am six feet in the ground. Like, kind of foundational to me as a human being. And so if you’re cool and want to defend the Sieg Heils and the Nazi salutes, all the, you know, whatever you want to do, that’s on you. I’m on the opposite side of that. I’m not with the Nazis. How about that?
Yesterday we had an Episcopal bishop speak to the president about having mercy on the vulnerable (and being mercilessly attacked for it.) AOC has to go on social media to explain that a presidential surrogate flashing Nazi salutes at the inauguration isn’t ok.
These are not things I would have ever thought anyone would have to say. Budde’s message was something we grew up with in Sunday School or lived with as part of our social contract as long as we could remember. AOC’s is the simplest political message you can imagine: “we’re against Nazis.”
And yet they have to say these things out loud now because a large number of Americans have either forgotten these simple, children’s lessons or never learned them in the first place.