Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rips Elon Musk: 'In This Country, We Hate Nazis'
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"I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis," the Democrat said. "And I will do that until I am six feet in the ground.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) reiterated Tuesday night a core tenet of the country amid criticism of a gesture made by billionaire Elon Musk during President Donald Trump’s inauguration celebrations: “We hate Nazis.”
Ocasio-Cortez spoke to her followers on Instagram on Tuesday, a day after Musk used an arm gesture, twice, that resembled the Roman salute adopted by the Nazis. Musk and his Republican allies have rejected that comparison and the billionaire discounted attempts to say “everyone is Hitler” as “sooo tired.”
The New York Democrat didn’t buy it.
“This is the United States of America. And I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal. In this country, we hate Nazis,” she said. “Kind of like a foundational, defining thing.”
“Two of probably the most foundational, defining things about American history is that we beat the Confederates and we beat the Nazis,” Ocasio-Cortez went on. “And I don’t know what side people may be on today, but I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis. And I will do that until I am six feet in the ground.”
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