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Democrat Strategist Says She’s ‘Enjoying’ AOC’s Post-Munich ‘Implosion’

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Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa admitted to “America’s Newsroom” co-hosts Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer Monday that she was relishing the “implosion” of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Ocasio-Cortez rambled for 40 seconds when she was asked during the Munich Security Conference whether the United States should send troops to defend the Taiwan-based Republic of China if the People’s Republic of China attacked it. Perino asked DeRosa if Ocasio-Cortez’s efforts to defend her response was “working.”

“No, no, and no and as a moderate Democrat, I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying this implosion,” DeRosa said. “First, she, you know, she herself decided to put herself on that stage in Munich, and she had to know she was going to face a lot of really difficult foreign policy questions, which she’s never had to do before, right? She’s like the perfect millennial TikTok representative of the extremist swing of the Democratic Party.”

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Ocasio-Cortez took to social media and did an interview with the New York Times that ran Tuesday to defend her response at the summit.

“So not only does she implode on the national stage, now she’s clearly melting down that people are acknowledging that she imploded on the national stage, and she’s acknowledging it too by her repeated outreach to The New York Times protest too much, you know, like create a new news cycle,” DeRosa noted.

In addition to the “word salad” response regarding the Republic of China, Ocasio-Cortez, a member of a group of far-left Democrats known as “the Squad,” also falsely claimed Venezuela was south of the equator while criticizing the operation that captured former dictator Nicolas Maduro. Ocasio-Cortez also made false claims about the origin of cowboys, when she mocked Secretary of State Marco Rubio for saying that they originated from Spain.

Spanish settlers imported horses from Europe to the Americas after Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519, eventually training indigenous people to ride them in order to help drive cattle, according to History.com.