Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “This is horrific. This is awful.”

Beyond elections, our task is to build community. Block associations, volunteer groups, church organizations, PTAs, activist organizations because community is the most powerful building block we have to defeat authoritarianism and root…

Right. I think that a lot of these races, even right now, they’ll have a tendency to be nationalized. … But these races, ultimately, are local, and all politics are local.

The fear of speaking up, the deeply bitter and toxic division is the crumbling of our rights and protections.

I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.