We’re living through a real-life attempt to erase the recent past.
“Woke One was crazy,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) laughed recently during an appearance on ABC News, approvingly quoting a New York City councilman.
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“Woke One was crazy. Okay, that’s a truth,” ABC’s Jonathan Karl replied.
The anchor then asked whether the left had gone too far during “Woke One,” including with its calls to “defund the police.”
This is where Ocasio-Cortez — and many within her ideological cohort, whether it’s writers at Vanity Fair or New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — want you to accept their version of events over your own memory.
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