AOC: “I Fully Welcome Trump Voters Into Our Coalition”; Former Supporters Have Told Me “I Learned From You”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called on the Democratic Socialist coalition in a TikTok video to remain open to accepting former Trump supporters who want to join the movement.
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): I want to say this right now. I fully welcome Trump voters into our coalition. And I know that sounds crazy to some people, but just hear me out. I cannot tell you, it just happened to me like two weeks ago. I can’t tell you how many times someone has pulled me aside and said either, I was once a big Trump voter and a Trump supporter and I watched FOX News every day, but then I started to kind of expand my world and where I got information. And now I’ve learned and now I’ve changed and I’m with you and I learned from you or people who meet me who are, who are really big Republicans now. And they are shocked when they meet me. Cause they’re like, you are nothing like I was told you are. And you start to see the cogs turning that maybe everything that they had been told from this one channel or this one ecosystem isn’t the whole truth. And it is enough to spark a curiosity that makes people want to go down a longer journey of learning. And you know, that doesn’t mean that we sacrifice our values. That doesn’t mean that we change who we are. You know, it’s like when you welcome someone in, you say, Hey, these are the house rules, right? We’re not going to give up fighting for people’s equal rights and civil rights. And, but we believe in those civil and economic rights for everybody. And working, fighting for the working class means uniting across difference. And so it starts something that’s important.
