I fully understand that AOC is not perfect but she’s doing a hell of a lot more than the podcast grifters are.
This is mostly symbolic.
The good news is that there’s one less hurdle facing Progressives trying to pass a GND or M4A during this congressional session. The bad news is that those agendas still have no chance of passing, because the Congressional/Presidential Democratic leadership are actively hostile to that possibility, and this “concession” does nothing to mandate they change that.
At least forcing the vote would’ve had a chance of exposing that hostility to a greater degree. It still would’ve been a mostly pointless gesture from a Congressional faction with near-zero institutional power, but so is this.
Maybe if the Congressional Progressives Caucus votes for more funding to regime change efforts in China, they’ll finally earn the proper respect of Pelosi and Schumer.
