Yes, they're both women on the further ideological ends of their party's spectrums—but only MTG is ideologically extreme.
They both get the other side really upset, but MTG does so on purpose; AOC by existing.
AOC, despite her lack of major legislative accomplishments, relentlessly focuses on policy and details and uses her speaking time on the floor and in committee to discuss issues or effectively interrogate.
MTG uses every minute of speaking time she gets for the grievance grift.
One of these women is a woman of color who talks about solutions and issues of discrimination against POC and LGBT people.
The other is a white daughter of white flight who denies the realities of systemic racism, spreads anti-LGBT hate, and traffics in conspiracy theories.
You don't have to like AOC to recognize that she is not the "left-wing MTG." A left-wing MTG would prioritize "white working class" against "identity politics" & traffic in conspiracy theories.
And there ARE leftists who do that (especially among leftist white men). AOC doesn't.
I'm not saying there aren't valid criticisms of AOC. There always are with any public official.
But this ain't it.
Just because you dislike two women on opposite sides of a spectrum doesn't mean they're equivalents from across that spectrum.
*"white working class" grievances
To clarify: Stop trying to EQUATE AOC and MTG. What I did here was literally compare them to show why trying to equate this is ridiculous.
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Making it so that student IDs don't count as valid forms of ID is clearly designed to make it harder for "woke college students" (as Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson described them) to vote.
A two party democracy, but one party is on a national anti-democracy binge.
Republican Reps. Jansen Owen and Kent McCarty and joined Democratic Rep. Shanda Yates in attempting to pass a law creating no-excuse in-person absentee voting in Mississippi during the pandemic.
“Mississippi is moving in the right direction. This is good common-sense policy that establishes dignity for incarcerated women because every woman deserves that," says Steven Randle of @EmpowerMS. 3/ mississippifreepress.org/11409/mississi…
This Northside Sun editorial says Georgia's voting law is "Not As Bad As Jim Crow."
"It may be argued that they will discourage more Blacks than whites...from voting," but "no one will be denied the right to vote because of skin color..."
THAT'S HOW JIM CROW HAS ALWAYS WORKED.
Jim Crow laws were created in response to the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
The goal was to get around prohibitions on overt racial discrimination by using "color blind" language to systemically target Black people under the guise of general "literacy tests."
The South was purposefully ensuring white children got a far better education than Black children.
And clerks would give Black voters much more difficult (impossible even) versions of literacy tests than white voters.
But the laws didn't specify Black voters as their targets!
THREAD: In a 1955, Dixiecrat Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi warned that the civil rights movement threatened "the death of southern culture and our aspirations as an Anglo-Saxon people."
Integration, he said, would threaten "their untainted racial heritage." 1/
To fight the destruction of alleged Anglo-Saxon racial purity, Sen. Eastland declared "a crusade to restore Americanism" by fighting to preserve segregation.
The Mississippi Dixiecrat tied that fight to the fight against efforts to "socialize industry"—especially health care. 2/
In 1938, Sen. Theodore Bilbo filibustered a federal anti-lynching law. Before he did so, he gave a speech explaining his opposition to the bill:
"It is absolutely essential to the perpetuation of our Anglo-Saxon civilization that white supremacy in America be maintained." 3/
NEW: Mississippi elections chief Michael Watson is defending his warnings against registering "woke college students" to vote, claiming "far-left, liberal professors" are teaching them "to hate our country."
His words he claims were misrepresented: “Think about all those woke college and university students now who will automatically be registered to vote … You’ve got an uninformed citizen who may not be prepared and ready to vote." mississippifreepress.org/11398/mississi…
“I think that those comments were probably taken out of context in a hatchet job in the sense that our job is to make sure that every Mississippian who is a United States citizens, who is a legal resident of our state, has the ability to vote,” Watson said.mississippifreepress.org/11398/mississi…
Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus: "Mr. Watson tips his hand when he uses the term 'woke.' ... Interesting, telling and exceedingly strange that he would not want those who are against racism to vote." mississippifreepress.org/11352/former-g…
Gov. Ray Mabus' 1988 inaugural: "A new day depends fundamentally on our resolve to banish racism forever from the State of Mississippi. We know in our hearts that the chains of prejudice have bound more than one group; they have held all of us back." mississippifreepress.org/11352/former-g…