I get the suspicion because the left needs to be wary of everyone but like…her background and actions so far are absolutely nothing like Obama.

AOC is a politician born and bred from the working class who openly identifies as a socialist. Whether you think she’s a socialist or a socdem is up to you, but the fact that she’s outwardly IDing as a socialist in a party that despises socialists is already more courageous than anything Obama did. AOC was a bartender, Obama was a Harvard-educated lawyer. Obama dissolved his organizing apparatus the minute he touched political power. AOC does boots-on-the-ground mutual aid work in her district. Obama never made any major moves against the establishment in his career. AOC endorsed Bernie Sanders at the lowest point in his campaign, right after he had the heart attack. If she wanted to sell the left out, she would have backed Warren who was angling hard for her vote. Despite what some of the terminally online say, she doesn’t punch left and it’s not like she’s a careerist profiting off her office. She literally called him and gave the endorsement when we weren’t even sure if Bernie was going to be healthy enough to campaign. AOC openly supports defunding the police and uses that slogan. Obama tone polices people who say it. I can guarantee you she has absolutely no future in the Democratic establishment and she knows it.

There are plenty of places to criticize AOC for. Taking photo ops with the NYPD? Wrong. Joining the Tara Reade coverup crew? Wrong. Voting for a military budget? Wrong. And if you want to withhold your support of her because of any of those things, that’s fine. But the idea that she’s a careerist like Obama or a sellout like Elizabeth Warren has very little evidence behind it. She is pretty clearly an enemy of the Dem establishment. If I’m wrong and she turns out to be a grifter, then fine, I fell for it. But she’s clearly in the same vein as Bernie - she isn’t controlled opposition, she’s insufficient opposition. If you believe in electoral politics at all, you want more of her in Congress.