Very interesting @AOC interview in NYT today, where she says: "the history of the [Democratic] party tends to be that we get really excited about the grass roots to get elected. And then those communities are promptly abandoned right after an election." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/aoc-biden-progressives.html

She also says, amazingly, that she is often not sure she wants to stay in politics -- primarily because of cowardly, anonymous attacks (my characterization) from within her own Party, which often treats her as its enemy, someone to be banished:

I understand the left has some valid critiques of AOC. I have some of my own. But she's in an impossible position - the huge platform & expectations means she's bound to disappoint some people sometimes - but, with Biden/Harris, the left needs critics from inside more than ever.

And whatever else is true, think about what it says about a Party that they would view someone like AOC -- with the unique reach & voice she's developed -- as a liability and threat to be exploited, then avoided and silenced, rather than one of its best assets. That's madness.