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Yesterday, in an Instagram live chat that predicably went viral, she described the terror she felt when someone stormed into her office, while she was locked in the bathroom, and started yelling, ‘WHERE IS SHE?’. In the words of the New York Post, it smacks of being a ‘blacklist’ of ‘allies and staffers of President Trump’.ĪOC is continuing her over-the-top recollections of what happened at the Capitol on 6 January. This inspired the establishment of the Trump Accountability Project, which seems committed to preventing Trump staffers from gaining certain forms of employment in the future – those who ‘took a paycheck from the Trump administration should not profit from their efforts to tear our democracy apart’. Late last year she suggested that someone make a record of all ‘Trump sycophants’ in case they try to ‘downplay or deny their complicity in the future’. This is where authoritarian hysteria ends up: calling for restraints on political speech and controls on the press.ĪOC has previously given a green light to the virtual blacklisting of public figures who backed Trump. In her mind, as in the mind of earlier authoritarian forces in US history, the current enemy is so sinister, so dangerous, that the constitution may be trashed in order to deal with it. AOC seems to have very little regard for that founding liberal principle of the United States. That amendment says Congress shall make no law restricting the freedom of the press. ‘We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation’, she said.

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Indeed, it is striking that shortly after the Capitol riot AOC openly proposed that Congress should think about how to ‘rein in’ the media. It is a demand, implicitly, for censorship, for the punishment of those who dare to hold views that AOC finds unpalatable. This is Authoritarianism 101: depict certain forms of political speech as violent, as akin to attempted acts of murder. That is a product of AOC’s fevered imagination. There is no proof whatsoever that half of representatives – around 215 people – were at risk of being killed. ‘We came close to half of the House nearly dying’, she has said, with not so much as a sliver of evidence. But AOC, like others on the left, is blowing this event entirely out of proportion. Everyone in possession of a moral anchor agrees that the storming of the Capitol was a foul, anti-democratic act an insult, primarily, to American voters, whose freely expressed democratic wishes were put under threat by an unrepresentative mob of pro-Trump extremists. Her hyperbole grows crazier with each passing day. She is engaging in a kind of political hysteria, with potentially dire consequences for reason and liberty. Ever since the riot at the Capitol on 6 January, AOC has been at the forefront of insisting that the US faces a new terror threat and that extraordinary measures must be taken to tackle it. The post-9/11 tub-thumpers have nothing on AOC and her singular commitment to stirring up national dread and panic in response to an alleged terror threat. She’s currently making George W Bush look like a rank amateur when it comes to instilling the fear of god into the populace. Consider Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, every leftie’s favourite congresswoman.

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