Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wants America to laugh off the radical, censorious, and destructive policies she and her ideological allies demanded before they lost the 2024 election and decided they should behave more normally.

On ABC News, AOC was trying to shield Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Francesca Hong from any accountability for her calls to literally abolish prisons and police, and so in her typical grad-student-just-spitting-out-slogans-to-fill-the-air style, she said, “During this time and especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the Overton window … The doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place … Of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”