Rhetoric..

 

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distanced herself from several positions held by the national Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) during an interview on ABC's This Week, while acknowledging that the progressive rhetoric used during the Covid era is "not rhetoric that we would use today."

The New York Democrat also said she does not support several policies included in the national DSA platform, clarified that she belongs only to the organization's New York City chapter and argued that candidates should be judged by the positions they hold today rather than past rhetoric.

Asked whether the progressive movement had gone too far with some of its earlier positions, Ocasio-Cortez said the Covid era created an environment where broader policy debates took hold before acknowledging that the rhetoric had changed.