May We All Handle Batshit Trolls as Well as AOC Did Here
During a town hall even in Queens on Thursday night, an activist with the politically incoherent, wildly pro-Trump LaRouche PAC ambushed U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, standing up and shouting that with only a few months to live from the climate disaster, it was high time we started “eating the babies,” to save ourselves.
AOC, unsurprisingly, handled the interaction with far more grace that it deserved—hearing the woman out, and then giving a thoughtful response that noted that “we are never beyond hope.”
Our sister site Gizmodo has a good breakdown of how the stunt was staged and more background on the LaRouche PAC—safe to say they’re not the kind of people who are familiar with the term “good faith.”
At the time, however, AOC didn’t know this: LaRouche’s involvement wasn’t put together until around 2 a.m. eastern, by a London-based author and researcher who’s studied the cult.
It makes sense, then, that her first public response was measured and compassionate:
After the LaRouche group’s involvement came out, AOC explained her response further, something that she shouldn’t have had to do, but here we are:
Super normal shit! Glad that our political system is working healthily and that there’s absolutely no chance this despicable, bad-faith attack gets blown out of proportion even more, unless of course the president hears about it and decides it’ll be a good distraction from his ongoing impeachment scandal. The story can only get dumber from here, stay tuned.