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AOC says left went too far in 2020, seeks a second chance
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admitted in an interview on ABC's 'This Week' that some progressive positions taken by democratic socialists around 2020, including calls to defund the police, were misguided. Laughing, she quoted a…
The Story in Brief
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admitted in an interview on ABC's 'This Week' that some progressive positions taken by democratic socialists around 2020, including calls to defund the police, were misguided. Laughing, she quoted a fellow politician as saying, 'Woke 1 was crazy.' She argued that candidates should be judged on their current stances, not on positions from years ago. Times Now reports that she is trying to distance democratic socialism from unpopular cultural positions and reframe it around a populist economic message. The effort echoes Kamala Harris's failed attempt to rebrand herself as a centrist, which the Trump campaign exploited. Ocasio-Cortez's success may hinge on a future run for Senate or the presidency.
The Indian Opinion
The 'woke was crazy' line sounds like an honest admission, but it also conveniently sidesteps that many Democrats, including Joe Biden, opposed defund-the-police and similar stands in real time, not just in hindsight. Treating every 2020 position as a product of the pandemic's heat lets politicians off the hook for poor judgment. The real test is whether voters in swing districts will believe Ocasio-Cortez's pivot to economic populism or see it as tactical repositioning. Her next move, a Senate run or a 2028 presidential bid, will show if the strategy works.
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