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Conservatives Are Bringing The Heat On Ocasio-Cortez After She Suggested Reagan Was Racist

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing huge backlash from conservatives all over he country after criticizing former President Ronald Reagan and suggesting he was racist.

During her appearance at South-by-Southwest Conference & Festivals, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a few comments in which she stated that Reagan’s handling of welfare was a perfect example of pitting people against each other.

“One perfect example, I think a perfect example of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans in order to just screw over all working-class Americans, is Reaganism in the ’80s when he started talking about welfare queens. So you think about this image of welfare queens and what he was really trying to talk about was … this like really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were ‘sucks’ on our country.” said Ocasio-Cortez.

Many conservatives felt the need to point out how wrong Ocasio-Cortez’s comments were and how Ronald Reagan did the opposite of what she was claiming.

“[Ocasio-Cortez] cheers for socialism while wearing $1000 suits and eating at 5 star restaurants. All provided to her by the benefits of Capitalism,” tweeted Andrew Pollack. “She wants you to suffer under high taxes and oppression while she thrives as a privileged congresswoman.”

“I first voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 – he unified all workers for their economic advantage and success – the Blue Dog democrats supported him and he was reelected in a landslide 1984 – apparently @AOC believes that Orwell’s “1984” is a “how to” manual to rewrite history ” tweeted Tony Shaffer.

Radio host Larry Elder also joined in with a perfect example of how Reagan help the black community back in the days.

“Watch [Ocasio-Cortez] accuse President Ronald Reagan of utilizing racism to ‘screw over all working-class Americans.’ (Oh, so THAT explains how Reagan carried 49 states in ’84. Black unemployment fell faster than did white unemployment. Black businesses grew faster than white owned ones.),” said Elder.

“There is no evidence that [Ocasio-Cortez] ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know he created over 18 million jobs during his eight years in office and kicked off a 26 year run of economic growth,” said Reagan biographer Craig Shirley.

Even CNN’s Van Jones Can’t Ignore That ‘Conservatives Are Leaders On Criminal Justice Reform’

This Thursday at CPAC, left-wing CNN analyst Van Jones praised american conservatives for leading the way on criminal justice reform.

As National Review reported, CNN analyst Van Jones appeared alongside CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp and touted the bi-partisan criminal justice reform package that President Donald Trump signed into law this last December.

The bill, which will essentially loosen some of the criteria for inmates to participate in early release programs, has been generally backed by libertarians as well as many on the right.

Here’s what Michelle Malkin stated on this subject at the time of the bill’s passage:

The package of criminal justice reform proposals endorsed by President Donald Trump is not “soft” on crime. It’s tough on injustice. And it’s about time.

Known as the “First Step Act,” the legislation confronts the Titanic failure of the federal government’s trillion-dollar war on drugs by reforming mandatory minimum sentences, rectifying unscientifically grounded disparities in criminal penalties for crack vs. powder cocaine users, and tackling recidivism among federal inmates through risk assessment, earned-time credit incentive structures, re-entry programs and transitional housing.

There’s nothing radical about giving law-breakers who served their time an opportunity to turn their lives around and avoid ending up back behind bars. More than 30 red and blue states have enacted measures to reduce incarceration, control costs and improve public safety. Texas — no bleeding-heart liberal mecca — spearheaded alternatives to the endless prison-building boom a decade ago by redirecting tax dollars to rehab, treatment and mental health services. The Lone Star state saved an estimated $3 billion in new public construction costs while stemming the prison population tide.

Van Jones not only praised american conservatives for passing the bill, but actually pointed out that conservatives in deep red states have enacted impactful criminal justice reform.

“The conservative movement in this country, unfortunately from my point of view, is now the leader on this issue of reform,” he said. “You look at Mississippi, a rock-ribbed, total conservative former jailer is now the governor. Governor Bryan cut the prison population and crime at the same time. [Governor Nathan] Deal in Georgia cut the prison population and crime at the same time. . . . What you’re seeing now is Republican governors being tough on the dollars. Tough on crime and shrinking the prison population.”

“You are stealing my issue,” Jones admitted. “Take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.”

Jones also asked for some bi-partisanship, stating that America needs its right-wing as well as its left-wing in order to function.

“I’ve never seen a bird fly with only one wing,” Jones said, according to Mediaite. “We need each other.”

However, not everything Van Jones said went well with the conservative audience. He even drew some boos when he said, “undocumented immigrants right now have a lower crime rate than the rest of us.”

Jones worked closely with White House aide Jared Kushner and the Trump administration to help get the First Step Act passed through Congress.

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