Iconoclast: Did AOC Ever Mean It? “With a laugh and a smile,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “Woke 1 was crazy,” notes Carlos Lozada at The New York Times: She was “distancing herself, whether subtly or overtly, from what is known as wokeism” — but how much of it did she “truly believe at the time?” If she “did believe it, jettisoning it now should take something more than a sheepish grin.” If she didn’t, “yet declared it with such passion, with such pretensions to moral clarity,” she should “acknowledge the dissonance” and “explain the shift, not just explain it away.”…