No amount of “I’m a Socialist but Stalin is bad” will ever be enough, as evidenced by half the country thinking AOC is a “Stalinist.”

Trying to relitigate the 1930s for the thousandth time is about as far away from a Mass Line as you can get.

It’s just a waste of fucking time. You’re not going to break a primary education’s worth of Cold War propaganda with a sound bite, and people need to stop pretending like “pro-Stalin” is some kind of line in the sand for a Brooklyn leader of the DSA.

Just stick to talking about what matters and stop pretending AOC’s job is to make cool Stalin memes.