In a town hall in Queens, New York, on Wednesday night, self-proclaimed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is up for re-election, responded to her enraged constituents in a fake Latino accent: “All right, all right, listen! All right, listen! Listen OK, listen!” The congresswoman also danced mockingly to the beat of angry voters chanting, “AOC has got to go!”
It’s unclear whether the dancing was meant to be funny, cute, or dismissive. Her furious constituents, concerned about crime rates and gender-bending craziness, continued to heckle.
It’s also unclear if using the accent was meant to mock her predominantly Hispanic constituency, or if