AOC Shrugs Off Her Old 'Defund the Police' Comments: 'Woke 1 Was Crazy'

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joked that 'Woke 1 was crazy' while defending socialist politicians' past calls to defund police and abolish prisons. The phrase, framing the late-2010s activist wave as a discarded first draft, is already circulating as shorthand in the party's internal argument.