Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Very real risk’ US democracy won’t exist in 10 years

Efforts by Republicans to restrict voting rights could result in return to Jim Crow era, says progressive in New Yorker interview

The progressive New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes the Republican-led pressure on political systems is so great that there is a very real risk" democracy will cease to exist in the US within a decade.

The leftist Democratic politician derided efforts by Republican legislatures around the country to restrict voting rights as the opening salvos" in a war on democracy, which she said could result in a return to the Jim Crow-era disenfranchisement of racial minorities.