NY Post
They’ll never own up to what they did because they still believe in the ideas responsible. And given the chance they would — and will — do it all again.
. . . "In June 2020, Hong demanded that the city government defund the police.
In November of that same year, she renewed that call for them to be “re-imagined and re-structured at every level.”
In between, riots in cities across the country, egged on by the Democratic Party and facilitated by its progressive wing, claimed the lives of more than two dozen Americans and resulted in billions of dollars in property damage.
Among the dead: 77-year-old David Dorn, a retired black police captain who was murdered for trying to stop a burglary in St. Louis.
Among the other victims: hundreds of small businesses — many of them minority-owned — that never recovered.
According to the Council on Criminal Justice, the homicide rate in a sample of 30 American cities increased by 68% between April and July 2020.
According to the FBI, the national homicide rate spiked from 5 per 100,000 people in 2019 to 6.5 in 2020 and 6.8 in 2021.
And all that’s to say nothing of the countless robberies, carjackings, muggings and other indignities law-abiding citizens suffered through during those lawless years.
The anti-American iconoclasm championed by Hong, too, had consequences.
New York removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall.
In Portland, rioters set fire to and toppled a monument of George Washington.
Boston took down a sculpture of none other than the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.
And the unpatriotic, ahistorical narrative of the 1619 Project took deep root in our nation’s educational system and collective consciousness.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist sensation mulling whether to mound a bid for the Senate or White House next year, test drove a similar dismissal of Hong’s old tweets on Sunday.
“My understanding that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate… she’s moved away from it,” she explained before quipping that “Woke 1 was crazy” with a laugh." . . ."
Don't let AOC retcon her starring role in 'Woke 1'
"'I have a local city councilman who has this saying: 'Woke 1 was crazy,'" said AOC with a laugh. She was referencing a tweet by Chi Ossé, a New York City councilman, who similarly uttered this line in an attempt to explain why he had previously said a "white man should not be the next speaker" of the City Council."