I've recently come around to this view as well. I identified as a moderate (as in actually moderate, not just non-AOC wing) Democrat for a long time. I turned against them when it became clear that a) the "moderates" are just as happy to raise my taxes and take my guns as Alexandria Donkeyface, and b) they're not the naked emperor, but they are telling me not to believe my lying eyes when I point out that the emperor has no clothes.

I've recently come around to this view as well. I identified as a moderate (as in actually moderate, not just non-AOC wing) Democrat for a long time, I turned against them when it became clear that a) the "moderates" are just as happy to raise my taxes and take my guns as Alexandria Donkeyface, and b) they're not the naked emperor, but they are telling me not to believe my lying eyes when I point out that the emperor has no clothes.