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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    No ones siding with MTG in the issue. But AOC allowed herself to get outflanked from the left on the issue of finding weapons to Israel. Eventually AOC got on the right side of it all, but Ilhan Omar and the rest of the progressive bloc didn’t get out flanked by MTG, just AOC did.

    Why is that acceptable to you? That AOC couldn’t take a committed stance against funding weapons to Israel? Eventually she got to the right position, but not getting it right to begin with speaks to her political instincts, and they aren’t good.