Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made so many bizarre assertions about economics, politics, and international relations that her recent revisionist history has gotten lost in the mix. The socialist said during an interview with PBS that capitalism wasn’t long for this world, and that it wasn’t even the norm at the beginning of this country.
“Capitalism has not always existed in the world and it will not always exist in the world,” the Democratic congressional candidate told “Firing Line.” “When this country started, we did not operate on a capitalist economy.”
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