AdvertisementScarborough, a former Republican congressman who left the GOP during Trump’s first term but has continued to describe himself as a conservative, wasn’t telling Democrats Monday to become conservatives. What Scarborough wants gone are the positions that scare off ordinary voters — abolishing police and prisons, excusing the rhetoric around Hamas and Oct. 7, and the rest of the woke era’s excesses. Quoting a New York City councilman, AOC laughed that “Woke 1 was crazy,” then told voters to judge Hong by what she’s saying now. AdvertisementOcasio-Cortez isn’t renouncing democratic socialism, and Scarborough isn’t asking Democrats to embrace free markets. He just told them exactly how the other side plans to finally get it into the end zone.