raised eyebrows this weekend when she merely shrugged off her previous enthusiasm for electorally toxic far-left cultural positions. "I have a local city councilman who has this saying: 'Woke 1 was crazy,'" said AOC with a laugh. Those are just a few colorful examples of AOC willfully participating in wokeness discourse and militating in favor of the more ridiculous position. It's true that broader debates about the excesses of wokeness inevitably involve competing definitions of what counts as woke. But since political correctness is clunky and woke is just a single syllable—much better for headlines!—the latter eventually won out.