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. @AOC, on Instagram, reflects on the Capitol Hill riot: “I thought I was going to die. And you have all of those thoughts where, at the end of your life, all of these thoughts come rushing to you … I did not know if I was going to make out of that day alive.”
AOC gets emotional: “White supremacists [were] ordered by President Trump to attack the Capitol”
“There were acts of betrayal [b the police]. And, to run in the Capitol and not know if an officer is there to help you or harm you, is also quite traumatizing"
“There were acts of betrayal [b the police]. And, to run in the Capitol and not know if an officer is there to help you or harm you, is also quite traumatizing"
AOC suggests there’s a “conflict of interest” in Sen. McConnell being married to the former secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao.
AOC: Republicans “don’t give a damn about the law ... they give a damn about about white supremacy; they care about preserving the social order and the mythology of whiteness”; “they lust for power more than they care about democracy"
AOC: Trump’s “white supremacist” supporters believe in a myth; thus "they have to resort to violence”
AOC: “The only way our country is going to heal is through the actual liberation of southern states … liberation of working people from an economic, social, and racial oppression”
AOC suggests adding “media literacy” as a mandate for a congressional “truth and reconciliation” committee
AOC: “A lot of people have drank the poison of white supremacy and that’s what Donald Trump represents. Just is. And if at this point you haven’t recognized that and you don’t see it, maybe you have a lot of work to do.”
