Add Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw to the growing chorus of Republicans fed up with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest bid to portray herself as a victim over her waitress work ethic.
The New York lawmaker bragged on Twitter last week about her “physically difficult working-class job” in a restaurant and suggested that Republicans “sit around on leather chairs all day.”
When she caught some flak for that, she then tweeted, “Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double they’d be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift bc someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling.”
On Megan Kelly’s podcast today, Crenshaw, who often tweet-battles with Ocasio-Cortez, ripped her victimology and added that lots of Republicans have faced tougher situations than wiping maple syrup off tables.
The thing that these conservative Senators don’t seem to understand is that I’ve actually had a physically difficult working-class job without good healthcare most of my adult life.
I bring that work ethic to Congress & to my community. They sit around on leather chairs all day.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 3, 2020
“There’s multiple members of Congress, on the Republican side, missing body parts. To say that we just don’t know hardship — and there’s multiple businesses, multiple people that have real-life experiences, and for you to just dismiss that, it just shows how out of touch she is truly and how insulting she is all the time,” said Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, who lost an eye in war.
“And that playing the victim thing, she really embodies sort of the worst stereotypes of the millennial generation. And it gives us a bad name, and I wish she’d stop,” he said.
And, he added about her argument, “It really is about elevating that victimhood as a virtue.”
Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double they’d be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift bc someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 4, 2020
