Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been at the center of a minor uproar over comments she made in an interview last week putting distance between herself and the aggressive "woke" politics that brought her and other Squad members to power, and seemingly acknowledging those views may not be as popular as they once were – or as sane as she pretended at the time.
The record shows the "Woke 1" early adopter doesn't have a lot of room with which to add such distance.
AOC chuckled on air last week as she quoted a local politician on woke politics in response to Karl's questions about past extreme positions among certain Democrats and Democratic Socialists. Laughing, she replied, "I have a local city councilman that has this saying: Woke 1 was crazy."
The progressive congresswoman, herself a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, was suggesting and implicitly admitting that there were extreme ideas and rhetoric in her wing of the left, blaming it in large part on lockdowns. She essentially acknowledged that such views aren't popular with most Americans and hinted that in fact it hurts the party's electoral prospects.
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