{"id":2643140,"date":"2026-08-11T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eyeing-2028-aoc-backtracks-on-leftist-nonsense-woke-1-was-crazy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:10:45","slug":"eyeing-2028-aoc-backtracks-on-leftist-nonsense-woke-1-was-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eyeing-2028-aoc-backtracks-on-leftist-nonsense-woke-1-was-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeing 2028, AOC Backtracks On Leftist Nonsense: \u2018Woke 1 Was Crazy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feyeing-2028-aoc-backtracks-on-leftist-nonsense-woke-1-was-crazy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2643140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-held-hostage-by-hamas\/\" title=\"Americans Held Hostage by Hamas\">provided content appears<\/a> to be a webpage segment with embedded scripts and HTML code, primarily discussing political commentary about Alexandria Ocasio-cortez (AOC) and her stance on progressive (&#8220;woke&#8221;) politics. It mentions her recent admission that &#8220;Woke 1 was crazy,&#8221; implying a recognition that some movements or actions from the late 2010s and early 2020s may have gone too far. The article points out her political maneuvers, such as considering a presidential run and endorsing candidates like Francesca Hong, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >controversial social media posts criticizing holidays<\/a> like Thanksgiving. <\/p>\n<p>It highlights that despite AOC\u2019s apology or acknowledgment, the damage caused by earlier &#8220;woke&#8221; policies-such as lost careers and societal disruptions-cannot be easily undone. The piece suggests that her comments about &#8220;Woke 1&#8221; imply a forthcoming &#8220;Woke 2,&#8221; which could be even more extreme and hazardous. it critiques the superficial nature of dismissing past excesses while indicating that the political momentum aimed at progressive policies continues to evolve toward future campaigns and ideological conflicts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Good news, everybody who lost careers and friends and opportunities thanks to far-left ideology: New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now says that \u201cWoke 1 was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you won\u2019t get your job back, or get that raise you would have gotten, save for your position going to a neurodivergent two-spirit indigenous person. But you have a clip of AOC smiling and telling you that it was all crazy. So now you can all go and vote for \u201cWoke 2: Woke Harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is context, of course, given that the ur-wokeista is now willing to admit that maybe, just <em>maybe<\/em>, people went a bit overboard in the late 2010s and early 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>First, she\u2019s eyeing a run for president. Also, she needs to get people with problematic social media histories that she\u2019s endorsed elected \u2014 very specifically Francesca Hong, a Wisconsin socialist state legislator, who has a Twitter history of hating white people and believing that every holiday except May Day (I\u2019m guessing) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desperate-francesca-hong-reverses-course-thanksgiving-wisconsin-primary-now-says-holiday-hated-favorite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">needs to be canceled<\/a> because of colonialism, and stuff.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It seems that Francesca Hong hates just about every single holiday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VVHnu9atAw\">pic.twitter.com\/VVHnu9atAw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/2084316192659952060?\">August 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hong is currently the frontrunner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin, which means she needs to do quite a bit of reputation-laundering, stat. She\u2019s tried pretending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-rising-dem-star-collapse-asked-pro-thanksgiving-answer-makes-kamala-look-like-genius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that Thanksgiving<\/a> is now her favorite holiday, but that went over like you would imagine it would, which means it\u2019s time to bring out the big guns.<\/p>\n<p>(Not that Democrats have guns! Figure of speech here. Clock it if you agree big guns only belong in metaphors, not in Americans\u2019 hands.)<\/p>\n<p>In short: She brought in AOC.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday, AOC <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-8-9-26-rep-alexandria-ocasio\/story?id=135487690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> host Jonathan Karl that Hong has \u201cmoved away from\u201d a lot of her more obnoxious positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-does-woke-1-mean-and-where-does-the-term-come-from-what-to-know\/\" title=\"What does &#039;... 1&#039; mean, and where does the term come from? What to know\">local city councilman<\/a> that has this saying: \u2018Woke 1\u2019 was crazy,\u201d she said, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think that what\u2019s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AOC on Francesca Hong\u2019s old tweets calling for abolishing prisons and the police:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoke 1 was crazy.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OuqYhSwtbk\">pic.twitter.com\/OuqYhSwtbk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/2086475224564768793?\">August 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By the by, the \u201clocal city councilman\u201d who coined that, New York City Council member Chi Oss\u00e9, had a definite reason for coining it \u2014 after he was reminded that, back in 2021, he said that a \u201ccis white man should not be the next speaker of the Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Woke 1 was crazyyyy<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chi Oss\u00e9 (@OsseChi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OsseChi\/status\/2057879171108376970?\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Herein lies the problem with laughing this off: \u201cWoke 1 was crazy\u201d does not restore any of the damage done by \u201cWoke 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t restore the careers or reputations of the people whose lives were sacrificed at the altar of woke. It doesn\u2019t take American society back to status quo ante. It doesn\u2019t rebuild the businesses no longer there thanks to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-mocked-labeling-kenosha-mostly-peaceful-footage-showed-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fiery but mostly peaceful protests<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What it does is wave away all our concerns about \u201ccancel Thanksgiving\u201d and electing a socialist who leaves a restaurant because she gets anxiety attacks around white people because, hey, the first version was a bit buggy. Haha! Mistakes were made.<\/p>\n<p>What it also tells us, by calling it \u201cWoke 1,\u201d is that there\u2019s a sequel in the works.<\/p>\n<p>And in that clip, you can see who the protagonist will be: a woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-2028-pollsters-give-brutal-news-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clearly positioning herself<\/a> to import Woke 2 into 1600 Pennsylvania come January of 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Woke 1 may have been crazy, but Woke 2 will be just as crazy, and even more dangerous.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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