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D<\/span>uring an appearance on ABC This Week<\/em>, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y. was asked whether Hasan Piker, who said that \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11,\u201d should have a role in the progressive movement going forward. AOC dodged the question by claiming the criticism of Piker was coming from \u201cconsultants\u201d and equating Piker to Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMany of the same consultants that are ringing their hands today were the same ones talking about how we need to go on Joe Rogan and we need to be not so willing to engage in cancel culture,\u201d AOC told Jonathan Karl.<\/p>\n

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The far-Left is ascendant in the Democrat Party, and many of them are further-Left than AOC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI think that the flip-flopping on this is a tactical debate that they may be having,\u201d AOC continued.<\/p>\n

Hassan Piker has heaped praise on one of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s top aides for calling to \u201cimpoverish the white middle class,\u201d said that Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fl, should be killed, promised to \u201cdestroy the white race,\u201d and said he does not have \u201can issue with an end goal of communism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hasan Piker also said \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter if rapes happened on October 7th\u201d and said that he would \u201cvote for Hamas over Israel every single time.\u201d Piker framed Hamas as fighting on behalf of the Palestinian people, who he argues are oppressed. Hamas\u2019s charter calls on Muslims to hunt down and kill Jews. It cites a story from the \u201cprophet\u201d Muhammad about Jews hiding behind trees that call out to reveal their location so that they can be killed. Article 13 of Hamas\u2019s charter rejects a negotiated peace and other initiatives as \u201ca waste of time\u201d and insists that the only solution to the Palestinian question is to commit Jihad.<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton, who tried to broker a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinians during his presidency, said that he could not get a deal done because Hamas did not want a Palestinian state and co-existence \u2014 they wanted to kill Jews. Clinton\u2019s account of the failure to negotiate a peace deal is consistent with the beliefs laid out in Hamas\u2019s charter.<\/p>\n

Hasan Piker praises these people, and Left-wing students in colleges across the country chant \u201cglobalize the intifada.\u201d Hasan Piker has expressed support for the chant. There were two distinct intifidas \u2014 both of which involved the killing of Israeli civilians and Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel. The second intifada was markedly more violent than the first and included suicide bombings by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other groups that targeted Israeli buses, restaurants, and nightclubs. When college students chant \u201cintifada,\u201d they are chanting for terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

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AOC has to placate Piker and people who share his worldview. That is why, when she was asked whether Piker should be a leader of the \u201cprogressive\u201d movement, she dodged the question by talking about whether or not Democrats should go on his show. But that was not what she was asked, and Karl did not follow up.<\/p>\n

Instead, he glowingly referenced a poll that showed AOC was leading in New Hampshire among 2028 likely Democratic primary voters and asked her whether she would run for president. He did not follow up after she refused to answer his question about whether or not Piker \u2014 who said America deserved 9\/11 \u2014 should be a leader of the progressive movement.<\/p>\n

But in her response to his question, she said that Piker was like Joe Rogan. Hasan Piker is not like Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan did not say America deserved 9\/11. Joe Rogan did not dismiss the suffering of the people who were raped by Hamas on October 7th. Joe Rogan has not called for the assassination of a United States Senator. Joe Rogan is someone who, until recently, was considered very liberal. The fact that Left-wing Democrats view him as being as controversial as Piker is ludicrous. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Ca, similarly compared appearing on Piker\u2019s show with appearing on Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n

Both AOC and Ro Khanna\u2019s answers talked about the need to speak with Piker in order to build a coalition. And that is the problem they face, and one of the problems we face as a country. AOC needs the Hasan Piker-loving, Luigi Mangione-cheering sections of her party to win. And while AOC may be one the most far-Left prospective 2028 Democrat candidates, she is not Left enough for many of the country\u2019s socialists and radicals. That is why the Democratic Socialists of America pulled their endorsement of her re-election campaign. AOC has a challenge if she runs in 2028 \u2014 she has to signal to the broader electorate that she is more moderate than she has been while being far-Left enough to maintain the support of neo-Marxists.<\/p>\n

Right now, she\u2019s doing both, which is why she is ascending. But her views are extreme, and to the extent that she is less extreme than the those even further-Left, she will be beholden to them. Piker, for his part, has said AOC is his top pick for president. But he qualified his view, saying that AOC does not harness the Left\u2019s \u201cpopulist rage\u201d to the extent that she could and is \u201ctoo liberal\u201d in her presentation.<\/p>\n

While AOC may be more radical than most Americans, she is less radical than many colleagues I have seen in law school and in the colleges I attended. The far-Left is ascendant in the Democrat Party, and many of them are further-Left than AOC. She will not condemn them and believes she must win their support. Remember that when AOC starts campaigning as a \u201csensible\u201d centrist.<\/p>\n

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