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Bishop Barron lands knockout punch on AOC over 'Woke 1': 'She has to own up'

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Economist Emily Brown — one of the myriad liberals who reflexively supported the oppressive COVID-19 policies that destroyed lives — decided in late 2022 that it was high time for Americans to forgive and forget and stated as much in an article titled "Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty." In a similar fashion, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) expects absolution without accountability — but in her case, for Democrats' years-long love affair with extremist policies, dehumanizing rhetoric, and destruction. 'No, it was brutal and inhumane.' Robert Barron, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester who serves on President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, hammered the champagne socialist on Tuesday, stating that her "giggling dismissal of 'Woke 1' as 'crazy'" was appalling. Barron was reacting to a conversation between AOC and ABC News talking head Jonathan Karl. Karl asked Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday about the radical and unpopular proposals advanced by Democrats and d