Ranked #230 out of 240 House Dems, fuckin yikes.
EDIT: Notables include Ilhan Omar at #214, Raul Grijalva at #14, Ro Khanna at #32, Rashida Tlaib at #92, and Bernie Sanders ranked #97 out of 100 in the Senate.
Ranked #230 out of 240 House Dems, fuckin yikes.
EDIT: Notables include Ilhan Omar at #214, Raul Grijalva at #14, Ro Khanna at #32, Rashida Tlaib at #92, and Bernie Sanders ranked #97 out of 100 in the Senate.
This seems like the equivalent to those people who criticized Bernie Sanders for not having many bills he authored pass.
At a certain point, these people do not want to author or co-sponsor something that goes against their beliefs, but they are able to hold-up something to try and improve it, like Sanders trying to get $2,000 relief checks to people around New Year.
Now, maybe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would do better in this ranking if she co-sponsor some random, rather unimportant, bills just for the sake of having something pass.
At the end of the day, I am not losing sleep over this.
"passing 20 anti-trans bathroom bills is effective, everyone else voting down the green new deal is ineffective"
Also, I wonder how much of the "effectiveness" including things like some Democrats and Republicans creating a bill that passes the house of Representatives, but does not even get a vote in the Senate (which they know will happen), although they get to look bipartisan?
like, literally the main thing any Sanders/Squad supporter cares about is their values -- people are well aware that the progressive/unapologetic self-identified socialist faction has very little influence in Congress, but people want their ideas visible (which has been done), people want them publicly debated (also a successful effort), and people want more representation of these viewpoints (which is an ongoing effort but by all measures is going fine at least). "Bernie/whoever else never gets anything done" has always been a bad faith, bad take.
Regardless of what you think of Bernie Sanders, the people of Vermont have been electing him to Congress since 1990, so it seems that enough of his constituents are satisfied with his performance.