Fox News reports that Pirate Wires editor-in-chief Mike Solana criticised Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s remark that “Woke 1 was crazy”, arguing it signals a shift away from cultural-progressive politics towards a more explicitly socialist, class-based agenda. Solana portrayed this as a potentially dangerous political pivot, while the article presents his interpretation rather than establishing it as fact.

The discussion focused on Ocasio-Cortez’s apparent distancing from an earlier phase of “woke” politics and what that could mean for the Democratic Party’s direction. Solana argued that economic populism and hostility towards wealthy people or institutions could become the left’s more prominent organising message, though the article did not provide evidence of a formal policy change by Ocasio-Cortez.