Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had herself a real productive day in Memphis this week, managing to embarrass herself twice in a span of hours. That takes commitment. As USA Journal reported, the congresswoman from the Bronx rolled into a campaign event for Tennessee state representative Justin Pearson and suddenly started talking like she had been raised on sweet tea and front porch rocking chairs instead of in the suburbs of New York City.
"We can't afford to leave Tennessee behind, Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind," she said, in an accent that belonged to precisely zero of those states and absolutely not to her. It was the kind of drawl that only appears when a Democrat visits a Southern audience and vanishes the moment the plane touches back down at LaGuardia.
This is, of course, a proud tradition. Kamala Harris did it at every black church she visited during the 2024 campaign. Hillary Clinton pulled out her legendary "I ain't no ways tired" routine in Selma back in 2007. At this point it is practically a Democratic rite of passage. Step one: visit the South. Step two: pretend you have always lived there. Step three: act confused when people notice.
But somehow the accent was not the most cringe-worthy moment of the day. A Newsmax reporter asked AOC whether she supports abolishing the Senate, which happens to be an official plank of the Democratic Socialists of America platform she has been cozying up to ahead of a potential 2028 presidential run. Instead of giving a direct answer, she went after the institution itself, claiming the Senate "was founded on, um, you know, Jim Crow."
Small problem with that claim. The Senate was created by the Constitution in 1787. Jim Crow laws did not start emerging until after the Civil War, roughly 80 years later. That is not a minor gap. That is an entire century of American history just completely skipped over like a boring chapter in a textbook she apparently never opened.
Sen. Ted Cruz responded with what most people were already thinking: "This is what happens when you don't teach basic U.S. history." Hard to argue with that one.
What makes it worse is that AOC has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, a document that specifically establishes the Senate as a co-equal branch of government. She could not bring herself to say she supports the Senate's continued existence. She did not reject the idea of abolishing it. She just attacked its foundations with a claim that was wrong by about eight decades and kept on moving as if nobody would bother to check.
The DSA platform calls for abolishing the Senate, packing the Supreme Court, and replacing the presidency with a committee. AOC will not distance herself from any of that. She just will not say it out loud either, because even she knows how it sounds outside the activist bubble.
Republicans watching this unfold should be taking notes and smiling. If this is the 2028 frontrunner, every day between now and Election Day is going to be wildly entertaining.
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