AOC’s Party Now: 202 House Democrats Were Asked to Sign ‘We Are Capitalists, Not Socialists’ — Only 10 Did

The pledge was part of a broader “Promise to America” initiative launched by centrist Democrats as a response to the DSA’s takeover of their party. Its full list of commitments included “We want safety, not lawlessness,” “We are responsible, not reckless,” “We are proud, not ashamed of America.” By any honest accounting, this is about as vanilla as political pledges get. And 202 Democrats in the House said no.

AOC’s response to the initiative was telling. She appeared on a radio program and attacked the pledge signers for failing to articulate what they actually stand for: “There’s no affirmative vision really coming from most places in the Democratic Party with the exception of democratic socialism.” She wasn’t wrong about the diagnosis. She simply views it as a feature rather than a problem.
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