Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems.
In a statement on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding “Iron Dome and other defensive systems”, and that “consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law”.
Her remarks on Wednesday follow reports that she pledged to oppose any future military aid to Israel during a New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) forum on Tuesday evening.
“Our allies who need our military aid must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment and the foreign assistance act”, Ocasio-Cortez added, referring to a law which prohibits the US from providing military support to army units that violate human rights.
According to City & State, which obtained a partial recording of the DSA forum, Ocasio-Cortez told members: “I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never,” adding that “the Israeli government should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves.”
This is the first time I’ve seen the phrase blueMAGA. I can imagine what it means and I’m curious which (democratic) politicians most fit the bill, in yours and others opinions.
It’s liberals that are Blue MAGA. They want to keep the status quo, they just want Dems running the oligarchy instead of Republicans. These would be the unrelenting supporters of Clinton and Harris and Biden.
So would Bernie Sanders and AOC be considered “liberals” or is there a better term?
Neither Bernie or AOC are liberals. Both are explicitly either Democratic Socialist or progressive.
Bernie is a Democratic Socialist and AOC identifies as one as well.
It can’t apply to Democratic politicians, because the phrase refers to someone who blindly supports the Dem establishment/Democratic politicians in general much like MAGA Republicans blindly support Trump (that’s what the MAGA part is about). If a Democratic politician blindly supported the establishment, they’d just be a member of the establishment.
It’s not a real thing.