Efforts by Republicans to restrict voting rights could result in return to Jim Crow era, says progressive in New Yorker interview
“We don’t have much time,” she said. “The president has not been using his executive power to the extent that some would say is necessary.”
“There’s a very real risk that we will not,” she said. “What we risk is having a government that perhaps postures as a democracy, and may try to pretend that it is, but isn’t. Although she believes the situation “is not beyond hope”, Ocasio-Cortez fears inaction will lead to a “return to”, a reference to repressive laws in the US south to the mid-20th century designed to enforce racial segregation and disenfranchise Blacks.
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