Ocasio-Cortez rips GOP over Steve King's white supremacy comments

Source: The Hill

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized Republican lawmakers on Sunday, including for their response to Rep. Steve King's (R-Iowa) comments about white supremacy.

"'Seeds.'Out of the minority of seats they have in Congress, the GOP allowed a white supremacist to represent ~700,000 people.," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, referring to King. She was citing an opinion piece in The Washington Post titled, "The GOP must stamp out the seeds of hatred before it's too late."

"Republicans won’t even censure him," she continued. "They also protect a president who can’t bring himself to condemn neo-Nazis. Those aren’t seeds. They’re redwoods."

Her comments come just days after King questioned why terms like "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" became offensive in an interview with The New York Times.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/425132-ocasio-cortez-rips-gop-over-steve-kings-white-supremacy-comments-suggests

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I know that a lot of the mainstream media is trying to make her into the next Alan Grayson or Dennis Kucinich, or even a Democratic version of Michelle Bachman, who are better known for attacking members of their own party, but the fact of the matter is that AOC is a progressive Democrat who proudly supported Nancy Pelosi for speaker.

Likewise, it may not get a lot of news, but here she is ripping the GOP for their passive response to another Steve King white supremacy remark.