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More than 100,000 members on the Democratic Socialists of America's rolls is the figure Pirate Wires Editor-in-Chief Mike Solana says should reframe how readers interpret Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's recent "Woke 1 was crazy" remark. Solana, speaking to Fox News Digital, argues the line is not a move toward the center but a rebrand that leaves the underlying policy agenda intact.
The comment surfaced on ABC's "This Week," where host Jonathan Karl pressed Ocasio-Cortez on Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong's prior calls to defund police and abolish prisons.
Rather than distance herself from those positions, the congresswoman quoted a local city councilman: "Woke 1 was crazy." Hong had already lost the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary on Aug.
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