Where this was said
AOC's Slip: Government Has Unchecked Power
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The AOC segment opens with Farash playing a short clip from Fox News Digital: Ocasio-Cortez is attacking large corporations for acting like governments with unchecked power, and she calls for antitrust action to break them up. Farash zeroes in on the grammatical implication: she's comparing corporations to government, and saying corporations are frightening because they emulate government's unchecked power. That, Farash argues, is not a slip of the tongue but a window into her genuine political philosophy. [1] — Shawn Farash "AOC said big corporations are scary because 'they think they have unchecked power.' The problem: she was comparing them to government — whi…" 1:01:00 The Constitution, he stresses, is explicitly designed to restrict and confine federal power; AOC seems unaware of this or indifferent to it. He broadens the point: when they tell you who they are — the DSA member saying 'our goal is communism,' AOC implying government has unchecked power, Daria-Lisa Avila Chevalier wiping her hands on an American flag — you must believe them. Don't dismiss it as the ravings of fringe figures. These are the candidates winning Democratic primaries. He closes by declaring the party of Kennedy and Clinton is dead, replaced by people who believe government should not be constrained.
CNN says democratic socialism isn't communism. The DSA says otherwise. In a video montage, David Jenkins explicitly states: 'Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.' You don't need a PowerPoint to make the case anymore — they're making it themselves.
DSA member David Jenkins stated on video: 'Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism,' directly contradicting CNN's framing that democratic socialism is not communism.
Democratic Rep. Adam Smith went on CNN and called DSA candidates' ideology 'vastly more radical' than normal progressivism — citing support for communism, open borders, defunding police, and a fundamental attack on America. He called it dangerous. Farash's response: where were you ten years ago?
AOC said big corporations are scary because 'they think they have unchecked power.' The problem: she was comparing them to government — which means she thinks government has unchecked power. The Constitution says otherwise, but AOC apparently didn't get the memo.
