AOC to Newsmax: Senate Elements Founded on Racism

Newsmax ^ | July 17, 2026

[MinorityRepublican]

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Newsmax that some elements of the U.S. Senate were "founded" on racism.

Ocasio-Cortez declined to distance herself from a Democratic Socialists of America proposal calling for the abolition of the Senate, instead criticizing parts of the institution while stopping short of endorsing its elimination.

Speaking Thursday with Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt outside the Capitol, AOC repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether she rejects the DSA platform plank.

"I mean, again, I'm not running for any larger office presently," she said when asked about the proposal.

AOC added that abolishing the Senate "is, of course, a constitutional question."

When Duchardt pressed the lawmaker on whether she supports the Senate itself, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the chamber's history.

"We've all got our complaints," she said. "I don't support the filibuster. I don't support elements of this institution that we know ... were founded on Jim Crow."

She also noted that eliminating the Senate would require a constitutional convention and approval by two-thirds of the states.

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TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; doessheevershutup

[Paladin2]

In our democracy can we vote on elimination of AOC?

aSKING FOR AN ILLEGAL ON THE VOTER ROLLS.....

[rbg81]

“Racism” is the magic word to these people. Its the equivalent of “Open Sesame”.

[ConservaTexan]

So was the democrat party.

[Williams]

Sure let’s just abolish part of the government. No biggie.

[crusty old prospector]

She’s a nit wit. Right up there in IQ with Kabala.

[Mlheureux]

AOC belongs to the POS party. They’re national socialists and plan to destroy the US. Better be ready because here they come.

[shelterguy]

“””She’s a nit wit. Right up there in IQ with Kabala.””””

Dude, she is the most smartest and they say she will be the next President and stuff.

[wny]

She’s a blithering idiot.

[janetjanet998]

Video
AOC: The U.S. Senate “was founded on, uh, you know, Jim Crow”
(Jim Crow came 174 years after the Senate)
https://rumble.com/v7cw5nc-aoc-the-u.s.-senate-was-founded-on-uh-you-know-jim-crow.html

[WKUHilltopper]

AOC has the teeth of a braying mule. Hee Haw!

[quantim]

Yep, this is what happens when you suck your thumb into your teens.

[Equine1952]

Cone head. DMF

[Nervous Tick]

>> I don’t support elements of this institution that we know ... were founded on Jim Crow.”

Of course the bartender doesn’t!

This verbiage is right out of the Gramscian Marxism oppressor-oppressed playbook, Idiotic and unsupportable in sane logic systems, but popular nonetheless with insane marxists these days.

[clearcarbon]

"Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Newsmax that some elements of the U.S. Senate were "founded" on racism."

AOC has the elocution skills as well as the intellect of a lapdog squeaky toy.

[Nervous Tick]

>> (Jim Crow came 174 years after the Senate)

Do not let mere facts to the contrary cloud your “lived truth”, comrade! RESIST!

[crusty old prospector]

C’mon, man. She ain’t no Ellie Mae. Maybe Jethrine.

[Orosius]

And once the Senate and the Presidency have been abolished, Sandy can run for Head Honcho of the Democratic Socialist States of Amerika.

[butlerweave]

Halfwit drug addict

[from occupied ga]

The only people who pay attention to what she says are already in her choir, as in preaching to. After all the great Winston Churchill said: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”!