Correct but the good news is, as I’ve commented elsewhere on this post and will say it again here, AOC attaching her name to our leftist events and organization here on the ground in her district has recruited so many leftists indirectly.

She attaches her name, OUR (ML run/organized) event gets overwhelming positive response, people feel like they’re making an impact, they ask for us to keep including them, we show them that our direct action and organization is more effective at helping the people of our community, and suddenly they are radicalized. We used to have a group of roughly 15 leftists. After AOC nominally attached her name whether for optics or genuine interest, we now have hundreds of members of an organized community. It doesn’t sound like a lot in a city with millions of people, but the group is now organically growing and winning over the hearts and minds of people through praxis, and an organized community has the ability to punch well above its weight given the ability to then field candidates to control the power of elected positions that were normally used against the left. Improving material conditions because of AOC’s (in)action have made it possible to build a left power base for the first time in a long time here