Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was criticized after she attempted to downplay the threat of socialism by claiming Republicans are trying to scare people away from voting for Democratic candidates.
“The ‘old-fashioned red-baiting approach, familiar to those of us who lived through the Cold War, doesn’t seem to be working,’” Ocasio-Cortez said in a Twitter post accompanied by an article that argues the fear around socialism is beginning to recede.
