What AOC gets right – and wrong – about ‘Woke 1.0’ | Francine Prose

Recent comments by AOC have reignited a fiery debate about ‘wokeism’. But what are we really talking about? Full confession: I am one of those who have come to think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can essentially do no wrong. At times when I most fear for the future of our country, I watch her videos and am consoled and cheered by her clarity, her honesty, her intelligence, her simple common sense. So I was a little surprised to hear that on a recent interview on ABC This Week, she quoted a…