AOC Is Downplaying Her Wokeness Now, but Her History Tells a Different Story

New York’s infamous Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), or AOC, as she is commonly known, is indisputably the darling of the far left. She’s a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which is a contradiction in terms, as there is nothing democratic about socialism; that name is a smoke screen. And just like that name, AOC is trying now to reinvent herself. Presumably, she has her eyes on a bigger office. Now, ever since she initially won the election, she’s been a reliable creature of the far, far, left. If she’s not an actual communist, she sure has her toes right up on that line.

But her smoke screen isn’t working. She’s trying to take a (slightly) more moderate tone. But the internet is forever.

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Look at some of her earlier statements, made publicly on X. She’s hammering that bugaboo of the far left, white supremacy; like many on the far left, AOC seems to think one can find a white supremacist lurking behind any doorway:

There is a difference between white supremacists & white supremacy.

White supremacy is like a virus.

Supremacists are those who have been completely overcome by the disease, but supremacy – the virus – exists on a larger scale beyond just the infected. It also lays dormant.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 8, 2019

She’s also all down with gender ideology:

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She’s also all in favor, it seems, of dismantling our justice system:

Our country has a “justice” system that criminalizes poverty + disproportionately targets race, yet routinely pardons large-scale crimes of wealth and privilege.

Moments like these tell us it’s less a justice system, and more a class enforcement system. ⬇️ https://t.co/etlIksWsiy— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 16, 2019

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Even Axios isn’t buying her sudden transformation.

Flashback: In the early 2020s, Ocasio-Cortez was one of the most aggressive andwell-known advocates for “defunding” the police — an idea that polls have long shown is not popular.

• In the summer of 2020, she blasted New York City’s government for proposing to cut its police department by only $1 billion.
• “Defunding police means defunding police,” she said then. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math.” She added: “The fight to defund policing continues.”

In 2019, AOC posted on social media that “we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country.”

• She said that year that some marginalized groups “have no choice but to riot.”
• And she said at an event in 2021: “I want to abolish our carceral system that’s designed to trap Black and brown men.”

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If AOC wants to sell voters on her sudden and unbelievable moderation, the best thing she could do would be to publicly and repeatedly denounce the detestable, hate-filled Hasan Piker, just for a start. She hasn’t, so that tells you all you need to know about the woman who was once “Sandy” Cortez, the NYC bartender. And, as always, the internet is forever.

(*) Full article: https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/23/aoc-is-downplaying-her-wokeness-now-but-her-history-tells-a-different-story-n2205962