Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a new take on the American Revolution, and it sounds a lot like her old take on everything else.
Speaking Friday at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics alongside Democratic strategist David Axelrod, Ocasio-Cortez declared that the colonists who broke from Britain were really waging a class war. The Founders, in her telling, were not fighting a distant, unaccountable government. They were fighting rich people.
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“The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time,” she said.
“The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time” – AOC pic.twitter.com/PGmDnLa9DU
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There is a lot wrong with that sentence, and critics were happy to walk through it. The American colonists
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