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Democratic Socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a tribute to John McCain on her Twitter account, and her supporters were not happy about it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — the 28-year-old “Democratic Socialist” who shot to political stardom when she stunned longtime incumbent Joe Crowley in a congressional New York Democratic primary in June, as CNN reported — joined the outpouring of tributes to late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain on Saturday, and Ocasio-Cortez’s fans were not happy about it.
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Ocasio-Cortez has allied herself closely with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, working for Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and more recently campaigning alongside Sanders for other “Democratic Socialist” candidates, as The New Yorker reported. Sanders himself also posted a message on Twitter honoring McCain on Saturday, following McCain’s death from brain cancer at his home in Arizona.
“John McCain was an American hero, a man of decency and honor and a friend of mine. He will be missed not just in the U.S. Senate but by all Americans who respect integrity and independence,” Sanders wrote on his Twitter account.
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Ocasio-Cortez — who as a 20-year-old, per the Mic news site, served an internship with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy (who died in 2009) — posted a Twitter message of hr own that closely echoed Sanders’ tribute, while including her own experience.
“John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service. As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.”
But Ocasio-Cortez, if she was checking her Twitter notifications, would have quickly learned that expressing any kind of positive sentiment toward McCain was not a popular move among the Democratic Socialist rank and file — at least judging by those who posted replies to the congressional candidate’s Twitter message, with one fan letting Ocasio-Cortez know where she thought McCain had gone after his death.
Another now-former fan labeled Ocasio-Cortez a “sell out” for her Twitter message demoralizing McCain, while another branded her a neoconservative.
California Green Party congressional candidate Kenneth Mejia also took the New York Democratic Socialist to task.
But not all of Ocasio-Cortez’s followers expressed bitterness over her kind words toward McCain. Some lamented what they said was the nasty and hostile tone of the replies, and questioned whether she had a realistic view of the Sanders supporters who have also supported her since she won the Democratic congressional primary in New York’s 14th Congressional District.
And another saw evidence of sexism in the response to Ocasio-Cortez, a charge that has long been leveled at Sanders’ supporters. In fact, according to research data cite by Slate, sexism played a major role in the refusal of 25 percent of Sanders’ primary voters to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump in the general election.
Ocasio-Cortez faces a Republican opponent, St. Joh’s University economist Anthony Pappas, in the midterm general election in November, but in her district in which Democrats outnumber Republicans six to one, she is considered a prohibitive favorite to win, according to The New York Post.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did a very nice thing Saturday, tweeting out a heartfelt tribute to the late Senator John McCain, whom she called “an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.”
John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.
As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy.
He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family. https://t.co/iu28V3snDm
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) August 26, 2018
Being (mostly) a political amateur in a severely partisan social media landscape, Ocasio-Cortez probably should have known that praise for a member of the opposing party wouldn’t be received by her progressive colleagues as a collegial olive branch extended in the spirit of McCain’s “Maverick” reputation, but rather as an open invitation to question her progressive bona fides.
Things got heated, as leftists roasted Ocasio-Cortez from straying from the party line and daring to suggest anyone right of Karl Marx might have had some good ideas.
He supported policies that caused the suffering and deaths of millions of people. How can you say he “represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service”?
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) August 26, 2018
John McCain heavily promoted the lies that led to the Iraq war.
He championed the NATO bombing of Libya.
He supported & armed the jihadists destroying Syria.
He played a role in bringing neo-Nazis to power in Ukraine & backed Saudi Arabia’s genocide in Yemen.
He was no hero.
— Eamon McGowan (@McgowanEamon) August 26, 2018
No, no, no, Alexandria. He was a war criminal, hands down.
You are young, please reconsider your opinion.
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— Putin’s side chick (@BarbaraLNewsome) August 26, 2018
I am shocked that someone who is putting themselves forward as a progressive and a socialist can say such a thing about a war-monger like McCain, who wanted to “drill, baby, drill”! That is decency? What?! Just lost any support I was considering. #SocialismForReal
— Russell Dale (@RussellEDale) August 26, 2018
Others bemoaned Ocasio-Cortez “selling out.”
Well that didn’t take long to get sucked up into the mainstream. Bye bye hope.
“Unparalleled example of human decency”? That is laughable and actually upsetting simultaneously, extremely naive also.
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— Richard Gilmour (@Youseethatdot) August 26, 2018
I could not be more disappointed by these words. You just sealed your fate with the Progressive movement.
— Beverly Couch (@BeverlyCouch) August 26, 2018
The derision went on for some 10,000 replies, though some of those were other Democrats trying to draw the friendly fire away from Ocasio-Cortez and redirect to more productive targets. Others were actually Republicans, praising Ocasio-Cortez for being a decent human being and acknowledging a significant death.
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Ocasio-Cortez, to her credit, does not appear to have apologized for her social media eulogy, even when feminist rag Jezebel droned on at her for over a thousand words, excoriating Ocasio-Cortez for lending credence to McCain’s “imperialism” and his opposition to high taxes and free abortions.