Conservatives online aren't willing to forgive and forget the destruction caused by woke activists over the past several years after Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., flippantly cast aside the behavior as a thing of the past.AOC, an original member of the so-called Squad of progressives elected to Congress in 2018, brushed off in a Sunday morning interview the first wave of 'woke,' which she helped champion."You don't get to spend years pushing to fundamentally transform the country, divide it on racial lines, inject DEI into every institution, and then try to brush it off as a minor misunderstanding when your worldview turns out to be extremely unpopular with the American people," said Rep.
Brandon Gill, R-Texas, on X in response to her comments.Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, departs following a vote at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026.House Republicans approved a $95 billion budget plan largely aimed at funding President Donald Trump's Iran war despite rising fears the unpopular conflict and surging consumer energy prices will endanger GOP lawmakers' prospects in the midterm election.
(Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ SHRUGS OFF PAST 'DEFUND THE POLICE' COMMENTS, JOKING 'WOKE 1 WAS CRAZY'ABC "This Week' host Jonathan Karl briefly pressed the congresswoman, who is a member of the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), on radical comments made by fellow socialist and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong in 2020 and 2021."I have a local city councilman that has this saying, 'Woke 1 was crazy,'" Ocasio-Cortez said while grinning."And I think that what’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now."But the political right isn't ready to extend an olive branch to proponents of woke-ness like AOC, no matter which version or iteration of the movement they are pushing."AOC and the far-left said these iss...