Sunny Hostin Claims AOC Is Not "Far Left" -- And Then Lists The Far Left Policies She Supports

[Ubiquitous]

Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that self-described Democratic socialist
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was not actually as “far-Left” as
Republicans say — but the evidence she offered made the opposite of her
intended point.

Hostin’s assessment comes just a day after Ocasio-Cortez lost her bid to be
the ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee — the position
went instead to Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who was reportedly backed by
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“The other thing that I will say is — about AOC — she has been demonized by
the Right, and she’s been demonized as this, like, too progressive far-Left
person,” Hostin complained. “And I want to set — try to set the record
straight because if she is too progressive then the Democrats really are
going to lose the working class.”

Hostin made no effort to explain the shift to the right — and toward
President-elect Donald Trump in particular — among working class voters,
insisting instead that the policies Ocasio-Cortez supported were proof that
she was not “far-Left.”

“This is her platform, the key issues: health care for all people, affordable
housing, rebuild the unions, federal job guarantee, free public college,
create clean energy jobs, paid parental leave, and expand protections for the
LGBTQ+ community,” Hostin read.

WATCH:

Alyssa Farah Griffin actually calls out how AOC's Green New Deal
would be catastrophic for the economy and the lies about it creating
jobs: "International travel virtually impossible to do because of
[airplane regulations]."
She notes Americans don't want government healthcare.
pic.twitter.com/NABxhfzzpk

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2024

Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back, explaining to Hostin that those
policies were far to the left of what many Americans wanted from the federal
government.

“The devil is in the details,” she said. “Because a lot of this country does
not support, for example, the Green New Deal, which would absolutely crush
jobs across this country, wreak havoc on the economy, it would actually make
international travel virtually impossible to do because of some of the
regulations that it’d put in place.”

Hostin tried to object, claiming that the Green New Deal would create
“millions” of new jobs, but Griffin kept going.

She went on to note that many Americans did not like the idea of universal
health care either, mainly because it would take choice out of the equation:
“I would argue that AOC is definitely too left for the majority of the
country.”

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[BTR1701]

Post by Ubiquitous
Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that self-described Democratic socialist
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was not actually as “far-Left” as
Republicans say — but the evidence she offered made the opposite of her
intended point.
“The other thing that I will say is —about AOC —she has been demonized by
the Right, and she’s been demonized as this, like, too progressive far-Left
person,” Hostin complained. “And I want to set —try to set the record
straight because if she is too progressive then the Democrats really are
going to lose the working class.”
“This is her platform, the key issues: health care for all people, affordable
housing, rebuild the unions, federal job guarantee

Federal job guarantee? What does that mean? Is she suggesting some kind of
law guaranteeing a federal job to anyone who wants one? Dear sweet
jeezus...

And why is rebuilding the unions the job of government? If a union wants to
be rebuilt, it should do it on its own, not using the tax dollars of
everyone else.

Post by Ubiquitous
and expand protections for the LGBTQ+ community

What more protections do they need? They've already been included in the
civil rights statutes as a protected class and they have Hollywood, the
government, academia, and every major corporation constantly celebrating
them like the second coming. When you have every sector of society throwing
you a party, you're no longer oppressed.

Post by Ubiquitous
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back, explaining to Hostin that those
policies were far to the left of what many Americans wanted from the federal
government.
“The devil is in the details,” she said. “Because a lot of this country does
not support, for example, the Green New Deal, which would absolutely crush
jobs across this country, wreak havoc on the economy, it would actually make
international travel virtually impossible to do because of some of the
regulations that it’'d put in place.”

Not just international travel. It would make it impossible to even travel
between some of our own states. If Occasional-Cortex somehow got her plan
passed, it would be illegal to travel to and from Hawaii and Alaska by air.
And considering Hawaii's entire economy is tourism-dependent, that would be
an economic death knell for them in addition to virtually imprisoning the
state's entire population on those islands.

[shawn]

Post by BTR1701

Post by Ubiquitous
Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that self-described Democratic socialist
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was not actually as “far-Left” as
Republicans say — but the evidence she offered made the opposite of her
intended point.
“The other thing that I will say is —about AOC —she has been demonized by
the Right, and she’s been demonized as this, like, too progressive far-Left
person,” Hostin complained. “And I want to set —try to set the record
straight because if she is too progressive then the Democrats really are
going to lose the working class.”
“This is her platform, the key issues: health care for all people, affordable
housing, rebuild the unions, federal job guarantee

Federal job guarantee? What does that mean? Is she suggesting some kind of
law guaranteeing a federal job to anyone who wants one? Dear sweet
jeezus...

Given what Trump has been proposing I would guess that she wants to
prevent him from getting rid of anyone he doesn't like by
reclassifying their job.

Post by BTR1701
And why is rebuilding the unions the job of government? If a union wants to
be rebuilt, it should do it on its own, not using the tax dollars of
everyone else.

Post by Ubiquitous
and expand protections for the LGBTQ+ community

What more protections do they need? They've already been included in the
civil rights statutes as a protected class and they have Hollywood, the
government, academia, and every major corporation constantly celebrating
them like the second coming. When you have every sector of society throwing
you a party, you're no longer oppressed.