A lot has been said about why Democrats lost the 2024 election, but if you were waiting with bated breath for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s take, wait no longer. Appearing with Joy Reid on MSNBC, perhaps the worst person imaginable to talk about any kind of campaign post-mortem with, the New York congresswoman put on her thinking cap and “explained” the real reason Democrats came up short.
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As the use of quotes above indicates, “explains” is doing a ton of work in that description. Still, what Ocasio-Cortez says is instructive. Just not in the way she thinks.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: You know, all of this debate that people are talking about with this woke thing, right? “Oh, my gosh, it’s because we care about trans people, that’s why there’s a backlash.”
REID: And by the way, only…
