Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Very real risk’ US democracy won’t exist in 10 years
by Richard Luscombe from on (#5W5J9)
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.
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