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At least on Twitter, AOC didn't say the right thing, though. She pretty openly used this as an opportunity to push her political agenda of gun control, which is pretty standard issue Democrat talking point whenever some major incident involving gun violence occurs. Which has sadly occurred so many times that it's become common knowledge that this sort of using of incident as vehicle sends a signal that you're a naked partisan operator trying to put on a face of common decency while actually in order to better push through your agenda.
I'd say Obama's a good example of someone who said mostly the right things on Twitter. Deserves at least a B, maybe even an A-. Beginning with the deflection about not knowing the shooter's motives isn't great, but it's still in the range of "fair enough, there's enough plausible deniability there." I would've rather if he was hyper-accountable and said "The likelihood that this shooter was motivated by violent rhetoric coming from Democrats and the left is a serious one we must consider and will compel some soul searching among us" or something like that. That'd be a somewhat costly (in terms of his stature among Democrats) signal that he really did condemn the murder rather than signal that he's a high status former politician who feels obligated to release statements about major incidents like this.
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