A tool for what? What did she gain from it politically, or hope to gain, in your opinion? From where I stand, it doesn't look like she's gained a damn thing except for scorn and judgment. She said right in the video, by the way, "The reason I say this and the reason I'm getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on, that it's not a big deal, that we should forget what's happened, or even telling us to apologize. These are the same tactics of abusers. And, um, I'm a survivor of sexual assault."
"And I haven't told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. And so, whether you had a negligent or a neglectful parent, and -- or whether you had someone who was verbally abusive to you, whether you are a survivor of abuse, whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life, small to large -- these episodes can compound on one another."
And why do you put "trauma" in quotations as though someone couldn't be traumatized by the insurrection that happened at the Capitol building? And who are you to judge what someone is traumatized by? Do you have mind reading abilities?
AOC says she's a survivor of sexual assault while describing trauma of Capitol insurrection - CNNPolitics