But unlike, say, a Bernie Sanders, or, as we were just saying, a Graham Platner, she stays away from disagreement. You do not see her doing what Bernie does, what Ro Khanna does. She’s not on “Flagrant.”
No.
She’s not out there with Lex Fridman.
No.
She just did a thing with More Perfect Union, which is a lefty content producer, talking to Trump voters, but in a very ——
Controlled environment?
Controlled environment.
She’s not on Jubilee, which Ro Khanna — and for that matter, James Talarico — went on. I think one of the biggest questions for her is actually whether she is comfortable either switching into places that are not natural alliances for her or being herself in those places.
Gavin Newsom is doing this everywhere right now. He will go anywhere he’s asked, and he particularly wants to go to places where it’s going to be unusual to see him there.
She runs a very, very, very, very careful operation.
Yes.
And often, when she is in spaces where she’s not comfortable, like the Munich Security Conference, it can get hairy for her. She can fumble.
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Moderator: And Congresswoman, I’ll start with you. Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Um, I think that, uh, this is such a, you know, I think that this is, of course, a very longstanding, um, policy.
If I were her adviser, and I’m not, I’d have a problem that she’s not doing enough, so she’s not getting the sea legs, and not getting comfortable with things going wrong, and also not getting the swiftness to rescue them when they do.
