FRATRICIDE:
AOC’s chief of staff deletes tweet calling centrist Democrats racist.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff deleted a tweet that compared Democrats belonging to the Blue Dog Caucus to the white, southern Democrats of a bygone era.
"Instead of 'fiscally conservative but socially liberal,' let's call the New Democrats and Blue Dog Caucus the 'New Southern Democrats.' They certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did the 40s," Saikat Chakrabarti tweeted.
Can we stop calling the Blue Dog Caucus "fiscally conservative but socially liberal?" I missed the part of fiscal conservativeness or social liberalness that includes wasting $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to put kids in concentration camps.
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc)
June 27, 2019
"Didn't realize this needed to be said, but: you can be someone who does not personally harbor ill will towards a race, but through your actions still enable a racist system. And a lot of New Democrats and Blue Dogs did that today," Chakrabarti added, referring to the
$4.6 billion emergency funding bill thatpassed the House to deal with the recent wave of migrants.
Version of the legislation passed the Senate 84-8 and passed the House 305-102, with Ocasio-Cortez expressing opposition to it.
A total of 129 Democrats voted in support of the bill.
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