Look at my succdems dawg, we're never getting socialism at the ballot box dawg
"Bernie's supporters have been very, very damaging to him, and it's really frustrating to see and experience. They don't realize how influential they are. It's frustrating to feel like they are hurting him," Ocasio-Cortez said in the midst of the 2020 primary, according to the book. "I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate."
She also worried that the behavior of Sanders's supporters were "forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis" through their "behavior, not so much policy."
Ocasio-Cortez made those comments as she mulled whether to endorse Sanders's 2020 campaign, even though she had worked as an organizer on his 2016 campaign.
Like, is there anyone that is more of a Bernie Bro than Hasan was? If I was going to describe a Bernie Bro to anyone back when that election was happening I would have pointed at that himbo.
I think she's realised that she won't go into the next election season as a progressive hero, but as a sell out, so she's trying to get out in front of it.
Seriously though, now any challenge from the left can be blamed on Bernie Bros, angry at being called out. It gives her a counter narrative which will probably be good enough for the average liberal.