AOC says “Woke 1 was crazy.” But while progressives are attempting to move beyond some of the rhetoric of 2020, Hakeem Jeffries is talking about dramatic Supreme Court reform, the DNC just voted on both reforming and abolishing ICE, and the Democratic Socialists of America have published an extraordinarily ambitious political program.
Today we’re separating rhetoric from reality and looking directly at what AOC, Jeffries, the DNC and DSA are actually saying — including the growing appeal of democratic socialism among younger Americans.
Is this a genuine political moderation — or the beginning of Woke 2.0?