AOC Supports Jeffries for Speaker
By Thomas Neuburger
That’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on November 10, 2026, seven days after the last midterm election. Does she support Jeffries for Speaker? “The race is unopposed. Yeah.” Then she turns away.
AOC Supports the War
This is painful. Ocasio-Cortez been clear for quite a long time: she supports Hakeem Jeffries, no questions asked. Here’s AOC speaking to Jen Psaki on June 26:
When the above statement was made, the war had been raging for months. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on June 17 and immediately made moot by Israel’s continuous bombing. The school girls of Minab had been dead for three and a half months. Ocasio-Cortez knew all of this. The uncomfortable truth is: she also supports the war.
Who Hakeem Jeffries Is
If you haven't already heard, Hakeem Jeffries is a pro-Israel warrior, by his own admission and behavior, from very far back. This is Jeffries in 2014.
Israel has wanted this war. The U.S. as well. (Remember “Bomb bomb Iran”?) Jeffries agrees. Last week he failed to whip the vote to get rid of Pete Hegseth as Pentagon chief. Expect nothing to change; Trump can still do what he wants. Supporting Jeffries and Schumer means support for No Change.
A Country in Trouble
The uncomfortable fact: the latest revolt has failed. People like AOC have been folded in. If Jeffries and Schumer don’t win their respective posts, I’ll eat my hat (with butter and salt, hot sauce on the side).
It’s painful to say this, and it’s painful to know. It’s painful to think of someone so very once-loved as taking the stands she now takes.
But my main point is this: The country is in real trouble now.
The Red Party is lost, the Blue is no opposition, and people see both these facts in a too-naked way. The rolling civil war will reach the next phase. I don’t want to live in a world with this much revolt. I don’t think anyone does. But I don’t see how we avoid it.
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