I like AOC. I even like some of her policies. I don’t like how she and those on the far left give sound bites that easily bolster the fear mongering set up to scare ignorant, lazy, and patriarchal based old white Americans.
I say all that with the full realization that it isn’t her fault. I also recognize that it is coming from a middle aged white dude and I am essentially talking about how I think a minority woman shouldn’t say what she thinks all the time because it might offend/scare people. Not a good look, I know. I don’t know how to fix it. She has been more helpful and supportive of those in her district than many others in her position. By all accounts her behavior while in office has been exemplary barring any of the manufactured outrage that Fox News and the Republicans have managed to create because they need another female to vilify now that HRC is out of the equation.
It sucks. But in a post-fact/truth society where half of the nation is spoon fed hate and fear, I worry that all of her good deeds and work get ignored because Fox/OAN/Newsmax will never report on the actions, and always choose to amplify the messages that paint her as the next Felicity Castro that Democrats plan to elect.