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.”
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Then she channeled left-wing New York City Councilman Chi Osse and said, “Woke 1 was crazy.”
Yes, the Peak Woke era from 2018 to 2024 was crazy — because people like AOC and Osse didn’t merely advocate crazy policies, they attacked and called for the cancellation of everyone who disagreed with them.
Some went crazier than others. AOC and her socialist comrades in particular were wild. AOC, for instance, attacked a priest who gave his life to serve lepers in Hawaii as a “colonizer.” Osse declared that “A cis white man should not be the next speaker of the [City] Council.”
The list of crazy positions and statements would be a mile long, so here are just a few I thought of, omitting all commentators, reporters, academics, and public intellectuals. Here are just three “Crazyyyy” positions (one for each extra y) by elected Democrats.
Booker thought it was racist for cop to save black girl from being stabbed
A Columbus police officer saved a black woman from being stabbed by a crazed assailant, and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called it racist. See, the cop was white and the crazed assailant was black, and it was 2021. For that reason, Booker took the maximally woke position and tried to beatify the stabber and vilify the cop.
The whole thing was caught on video, and it was obvious what happened. Here’s how NPR — one of the most devoted followers of wokism — described it: “Bryant was killed in April by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon as she swung a knife at a young woman, just seconds after pushing another woman to the ground. Bryant was Black and Reardon is white. Police were responding to a 911 call made from Bryant’s foster home about a group of girls threatening to stab members of the household.”
Booker never took down the post, apologized, or acknowledged the shooting was justified. Facts didn’t matter during Peak Woke. Only narratives did.
Minnesota lieutenant governor endorsed stabbing those who dissent from gender ideology
The tide of wokeness brought with it an increase in political violence from the Left. One of the people advocating political violence against Christians and conservatives was Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota. While giving a speech, Flanagan wore a shirt that read “Protect Trans Kids” around a knife. She made sure to flash the T-shirt to cameras so that she could broadcast as far as possible her call for violence.
Complete intolerance of dissenting opinion is a hallmark of wokism. Here, she made clear that she thought people should stab anyone who didn’t agree that a man became a woman by identifying as a woman.
Harris said U.S. taxpayers should cover cross-sex surgeries and chemical treatments for criminals and illegal immigrants
This one was so crazy that Democrats and news media types all assumed Donald Trump made it up when he mentioned it in his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. He didn’t.
The ACLU had asked Harris in a 2019 questionnaire about cross-gender treatments for inmates, and her campaign wrote this:
“It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition. That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates.”
Democrats had to pledge allegiance to the craziest things back then. Now they are suffering politically for it. They cannot explain whether they were dumb or lying back then, or whether they are lying now. So they try to make it a joke.
