One of AOC’s major blind spots is she doesn’t understand how many blue collar workers look down on workers like waitresses. They don’t see them as brothers and sisters to stand with, but as servants who exist to get them coffee and afford them to experience being superior to… https://t.co/aDLcSps0xF

— Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30) March 20, 2025

That’s right. She doesn’t understand it because it makes no sense. But people always want to feel that they’re better than someone else, even if the average contractor or construction worker should have more solidarity with the waitress in the café than the billionaire being a clown on TV.

But everyone in America sees themselves as a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire so class solidarity isn’t much of a thing.