AOC giving Joe Manchin the death stare over "defund the police"

[Celerity]

223. neither of the farthest edges of the Party, not AOC et al, nor Manchin and Henry Cuellar types

get to singularly set the agenda for the overall party, and in terms of attacking fellow Dems atm (not to mention endorsing a Rethug Senator in a crucial race that we lost) Manchin and his edge are not doing themselves proud.

I am truly a big tent Democratic voter and supporter. I maxed out to both Pete and to Bullock in MT, who are hardly hardcore lefties, but I also will defend AOC and others on the further left when I see them hammered unfairly IMHO. A bird needs two wings to fly, and I see certain things that seem to want to play scorched earth with the 'left', and try to drag the party even further rightward, which, (again my opinion) will have a disastrous overall effect, as it will blow out more voters than we will attract with such a move rightward in an attempt to capture this mythical cache of moderate Rethugs. The entire party cannot be tailored to cater to one Senator in an overall fucked up Trump-ADORING state, just like it cannot be tailored to cater to every whim of the Sanders/AOC crowd. Manchin went full blast (using RW memes) at a horrid time (when we are trying to win those 2 run-offs.) I am not going to stand by and either say, well, that's the way the cookie crumbles, or even worse, join in on the pile-on of the groups he is attacking with dodgy framing.

I am trying my level best to play it down the middle of the actual party, not playing to some ludicrously spun to the right artificially skewed political axis.

If you read up you (and in multiple other threads for 2 years or so) will see I took AOC et al. to the woodshed a bit myself (over their stubborn refusal to drop the false (literally) self-labelling as Democratic socialists.) I am not some doctrinaire tribal warrior when it comes to inside the party flare-ups. I think there are a couple on the left (NOT AOC) who may be trouble, but let us all hope not, and if they go full bonkers, I shall be right there criticising them, just as I am criticising Manchin's untimely and ill-conceived attacks atm.