I’m with you on this one. I don’t know why some folks expect her to start stanning ML states when neither she (nor Bernie!) have ever painted themselves as anything other than social democrats, for all practical purposes.

Like literally, what would make you think either AOC or Bernie are socialists other than the label they occasionally use for themselves? 99.9% of their words and 100% of their actions point to social democracy, and they don’t pretend otherwise. And you know what, I think that’s ok. Personally I think social democracy represents the outer left limit of what can be accomplished via electoralism in the US.

(btw I will always try and include Bernie whenever AOC is mentioned because even though their politics are exactly identical AOC seems to get a lot more hate for some reason…