Possible reason AOC endorsed Pelosi for speaker (from Movement for a Peoples Party) 11/29/18

this is a likely scenario that will play out.

The momentum though is in favor of this happening.

Thanks to people like Bernie Sanders and AOC the American people are getting to see what a decent politician can look like.

Bernie always said he can’t do it without a massive effort by millions of Americans getting involved and this is still the case.

Great. I wonder who the ‘more conservative’ threat might have been??

The progressive have been and will be stonewalled at every turn. Still, they’re young, full of energy and, I think, know fully what they’re up against. I have faith in these guys, and expect more progressives to be elected, which will tilt the process in their favor.

Either way, it assured her election by forcing progressives to support her.

Their days are numbered 3 digits or less…

That’s how governments in a democracy work.

–made a deal with Pelosi and got some plum committee  assignments as a result.

beyond fear and rhetoric they can truly ask their leaders to change. I donot see that happening in the next 100 years so we are stuck with Nancy

He’s implying that if AOC and the other progressives had stood their ground, they would have magically elected a Speaker who was to the left of four-fifths of the members of the House.

Brana’s quixotic effort has consumed progressives’ time and money without electing one single member of Congress who could help the progressive Democrats effect change.  He is the LAST person who should be disparaging the progressives who actually did manage to replace more conservative members.

What the establishment has done was to create a much worse situation than Nancy Pelosi to threaten any one to their left.

Such a thing is untenable, and in some cases, I feel like they may have just let things be.  Why must it be the conservative wing be more willing to burn things down?

In some cases, such as this, I am now somewhat inclined to let them lose their power, rather than keep this ever-speeding-up decay.

or someone else even worse than Pelosi.