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AOC Says “Woke 1 Was Crazy” — The Left’s Rebrand Begins · Right Now Hot Takes

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  Imagine this. The same people who spent years
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  pushing defund the police, cancel culture, and
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  radical redistribution just looked into the camera
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  and laughed. Woke One was crazy. That's not me
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  saying it. That's Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez on
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  national television. Welcome to Right Now Hot
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  Takes. I'm Jim Rand. She was defending candidates
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  who once said the quiet parts out loud about
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  abolishing police, ending prisons, and transforming
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  institutions. Now the message is, judge us only
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  on what we say today. Forget the last six years.
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  Beliefs can develop and grow. Meanwhile, average
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  rent in New York City just hit a record high.
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  Socialist -aligned candidates keep taking hits
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  in primaries. The same ideas that produced chaos,
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  higher costs, and division are being quietly
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  rebranded as the new, improved version. This
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  is not growth. This is damage control. Young
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  people are the target audience for the rebrand.
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  You're being told the old slogans were just a
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  phase, a product of the moment after 2020, and
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  the real solutions are still coming if you give
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  them another chance under better branding. Look
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  at the results instead of the packaging. Cities
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  that leaned hardest into the progressive package
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  did not become more affordable or safer. They
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  became more expensive and more divided. Record
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  rents, rising disorder in some places, fewer
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  opportunities for the exact people the rhetoric
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  claimed to help. Free enterprise is not a slogan.
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  It is a system that rewards people who produce
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  more of what others need. Limited government
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  and personal responsibility expand the pie. Envy
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  politics and central control shrink it and create
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  new winners and losers based on political favor.
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  The left is not suddenly converting to free markets
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  or personal responsibility. They are trying to
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  keep the same failed incentives while changing
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  the language so fewer people notice the continuity.
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  I love this country because ordinary people can
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  still see through the rebrand if someone is willing
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  to say it plainly and point to the outcomes.
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  If you're in your 20s and you're being sold a
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  new version of the same old ideas, ask one question.
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  Where are the results? not the intentions, not
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  the new branding or the soft laugh on Sunday
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  morning television, the actual outcomes for jobs,
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  safety, housing costs and opportunity. Same socialism,
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  new packaging, same failures. Don't fall for
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  the rebrand. If you enjoyed this episode, please
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  for more unfiltered truth. I'm Jim Rand. I'll
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  see you next time on Right Now Hot Takes.