Democrats Suddenly Can’t Define ‘Woke’ After AOC Says It Was ‘Crazy’
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AOC called it "Woke 1," like there's a sequel coming with better writing and a bigger budget. Two Sunday shows handed her fellow Democrats a softball question about what she actually meant, and both of them swung and missed in the exact same way. That's not a coincidence.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) handed her party a problem it spent Sunday morning refusing to answer when she laughed off a slate of far-left policy positions as the excesses of “Woke 1.” Two of the biggest Sunday shows put Ocasio-Cortez’s remark to Democratic guests as a loyalty test, and both guests gave a near-identical non-answer.
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AOC called it "Woke 1," like there's a sequel coming with better writing and a bigger budget. Two Sunday shows handed her fellow Democrats a softball question about what she actually meant, and both of them swung and missed in the exact same way. That's not a coincidence. That's a party that has no idea what it believes anymore, or at least no idea it's willing to say out loud on camera.
Here's the thing nobody on that panel wanted to touch: AOC didn't disavow a slur conservatives invented to describe her party. She disavowed actual positions her party actually held five minutes ago. Defund the police. Open borders rhetoric. The pronoun litigation of everyday conversation. Those were real policy fights, not vibes, and plenty of Democrats went to the mat for them. Now the congresswoman who was often the loudest voice in that fight is quietly filing it under "crazy" and moving on, and her colleagues can't even manage a straight answer about what she's talking about.
That's the real story here. It's not that AOC said something newsworthy. It's that saying "woke was crazy" is apparently more dangerous to a Democrat's career than the crazy itself ever was. Watch how fast the party pivots from defending a position to pretending it never held one, all without ever explaining what changed or who's supposed to apologize for it.
We'd have more respect for an actual reckoning. Say what went wrong, name it, own it. Instead we got word salad and forced smiles, which tells you the party isn't done with "Woke 1." It just doesn't want to admit "Woke 2" is already on the way.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.