Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rips Kevin McCarthy's Criticism Of 'His Little KKK Caucus'

[UCmeNdc]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) didn’t buy House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) criticism of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz) for speaking at a white nationalist America First Political Action Conference over the weekend.

McCarthy’s claim there was “no place in our party for any of this” rang hollow for Ocasio-Cortez, who slammed the House GOP leader for “protecting his little KKK Caucus for years” with “toothless” statements.

“It’s how he covers for them,” the progressive lawmaker tweeted. “He’s now helped them for so long they’ve escalated their open antisemitism & collaboration w/ white nationalist groups. He’s just as culpable.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-kevin-mccarthy-mtg_n_621ded86e4b0afc668c599a3

[Kid Berwyn]

1. You either are with the KKK or you are against the KKK.

Why so many don’t make clear where they stand makes clear where they do.

[ffr]

11. +1

[2naSalit]

15. No doubt about it.

The only apologists in the whole situation are those who are complicit.

[IronLionZion]

19. Because they are with the KKK

and lots of other violent extremist groups like proud boys, patriot front, oathkeepers, 3 percenters, etc. That's their base of support. They depend on it.

[MissMillie]

2. The GQP needs those fringe fanatics to get to a majority

And the GQP needs their money.

The GQP will never seriously do anything to alienate the racists.

[IronLionZion]

20. They might be getting less Russian money in the near future

so they need money from somewhere

[Mr. Ected]

3. Any wonder that he made his statement on CNN and not on FOX?

Or that he has not and will not advance this on the floor of the House?

AOC is right. Games Fascists Play. Bloviate on TV to the selected audience, carry on with business as usual.

And as usual, the media allows itself to be used to deceive the public.

[JohnSJ]

4. She is right, and more Democrats need to do this, and it is very sad they aren't

[Hortensis]

5. "DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist

expansionism that set the stage for this conflict”

That's from the DSA's statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Ocasio-Cortez is a member. Russia's very aggressive imperialism predated the establishment of our nation by some centuries.

Compared to the need of a DSA member in congress to clarify her position on that, surely this attack on McCarthy's statement against could maybe been an "O, yes, and..." tacked to the bottom?

To be clear, the DSA's statement condemns Russia's invasion before blaming the United States for it. Ocasio-Cortez has never come out against NATO or US participation in it, but like Senator Sanders, and a host of American appeasers and apologists for Russia's "viewpoint," has advocated against involvement with Ukraine.

https://www.dsausa.org/statements/on-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/

[Demsrule86]

7. Yep that is it.

[KS Toronado]

8. That's interesting

I see no valid reason for us to quit NATO.

[monkeyman1]

21. U.S. -don't even think about it !!

[empedocles]

10. Important, signficant post for the DU forum. Helps make DU members more aware.

[Delphinus]

14. Whoa.

I'm glad you shared this. I had no idea.

[2naSalit]

16. +1

News to me too. I haven't paid much attention to them is probably why.

[Hortensis]

22. I used to go see what some of the DSA leaders were saying,

in magazine articles and such as their website was closed, if not agreeing at least finding their viewpoints, and plentiful criticisms , occasionally worth checking.

But around the 2015 campaigns, as extremism and aggressive populist movements grew on both right and left, a lot of newly radicalized types, including LW authoritarians, with most far more committed to populist overthrow of the democratic "establishment" than to socialism, started pouring into the DSA and changing its character -- just as tRump's populism did the right.

Kind of hard on the real, rational socialists of the DSA; but given what's happened there and to "rational" conservatives on the radicalized right, I have no idea how many have survived.

[BlackSkimmer]

17. Interesting.

Thanks for posting.

[Rob H.]

23. "Ocasio-Cortez has never come out against NATO or US participation in it...

...but like Senator Sanders, and a host of American appeasers and apologists for Russia's "viewpoint," has advocated against involvement with Ukraine."

This doesn't seem like someone who "advocated against involvement" to me.

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

24. This is her response TO Russia's invasion. Not before.

Politicians on our side condemn the invasion. Most pre-invasion Russia apologists and appeasers, who condemned any interference Russia's special "rights" in the region, condemn the invasion. Bernie Sanders took a stand against invasion.

Even the DSA condemns the invasion now that it's happened -- and blames the U.S.

[ck4829]

6. K&R

[patphil]

9. AOC nails it! McCarthy is culpable in the Repug's shift to the ultra-far right.

Too concerned about his position to take a principled stand on this. Oh, wait a minute, that is the Repug's idea of a principled stand...blind hatred for anything that isn't white supremacist.

[Ohio Joe]

12. "It's how he covers for them"

Exactly right, the right wants this shit under the covers, they don't want it to end.

[Celerity]

13. the actual KKK loves them some Rethugs and Rump

[dchill]

18. "He's just as culpable." Yes. Now all we need to do...

...is explain the meaning of "culpable" to people who have been completely immune to all the synonyms for years.

[Rob H.]

25. From an article linked in the Huffpost article:

"The Pharisees in the Republican Party may attack me for being willing to break barriers and speak to a lost generation of young people who are desperate for love and leadership," (Greene) said. "But I won't abandon these young men and women, because I believe we need to do better by them."

Wow. Just when you thought she couldn't get any crazier....