Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez feared she would be raped during the attack on Capitol Hill by a crowd of supporters of former President Donald Trump on January 6th. That’s how she explained herself in an interview with CNN from which some excerpts were advanced. Ocasio-Cortez, one of America’s favorite right-wing targets, reflected on how she felt about “misogyny and racism so deeply rooted and exacerbated in the attack”.
“White supremacy and patriarchy are linked in many ways., there is a lot of sexualization of violence and on that day I not only thought I was going to be murdered, I thought that other things could also happen to me”, recalled Ocasio-Cortez, 31. Asked if she thought she would be raped, the congresswoman replied firmly: “Yes, yes.”
Ocasio-Cortez emphasized that the horde of horn players that invaded the Capitol not only followed a supposed theory of electoral fraud, but were internally “animated” by a “misogynist” and racist spirit. “So far, the US Department of Justice has filed charges for the events of January 6 against more than 570 people, ranging from weapons possession, insurrection, assault on authority, invasion of restricted spaces in the state and attempts to paralyze lawsuits elections.
victim of sexual assault
In February of this year, Ocasio-Cortez revealed in a direct on her Instagram account that she considered herself a survivor of a past sexual assault, of which he gave no details, and which was unrelated to the attack on the Capitol. And that both this fact and the moments lived at the headquarters of Congress were a trauma for him.
The decision to tell your story as a victim of sexual violence in her early 20s “I did not know “, admitted. “You don’t say, ‘This is the time. I’m going to do it now ‘. It seems like something happens that almost pushes him and almost forces him to show up,” the congresswoman said, adding, “Because I think a lot of survivors would prefer never to talk about what happened again.”
“Survivors have a very strong skill set. And the skills required as a survivor, the tools you build for resilience, return immediately“said the deputy during the interview, explaining that she felt that these skills” resurfaced immediately to survive “.
Occasion-Cortez, who has just started his second term in the House of Representatives, described that fateful January 6th she was locked in the office bathroom, heard a knock on the doors, and finally heard a voice asking, “Where is he?” The leader of American progressivism did not know at the time that he was a police officer serving on Capitol Hill because, according to her, the agent never identified himself.
A first term “painful”
When Ocasio-Cortez arrived in Washington two years ago, after surprisingly surpassing a high-ranking Democrat, her new colleagues were slow to accept her. Some have never done this. Although he rarely speaks about it in public, Ocasio-Cortez said during the interview that his first term “was very painful”.
“I went in and removed a headline that, while it may not have resonated in our community, was very popular in those smoke-filled rooms.”Ocasio-Cortez said. “I took a friend of these members. And so, I entered a very cold environment, even within my own party”, he added.
This title, Former New York Congressman Joe Crowley was the fourth House Democrat when he lost his seat to Ocasio-Cortez, who denied him an eleventh term. The congresswoman said she was rejected by some of Crowley’s old friends and others who questioned her good faith, but never took the time to involve her when she arrived at the Capitol.
In this sense, Ocasio-Cortez stated that sometimes “it was very rare to go to the Chamber of Deputies and see a colleague who never greeted me”. “I felt it, wow, It’s very difficult for there to be people who have opinions about you who are sitting next to you and who don’t even start a conversation with you“, expressed.
Your future in politics
In another part of the dialogue with CNN, Occasion-Cortez was ambiguous when asked whether she will run in the 2022 primaries against current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I know the whole world is going crazy” over this issue, he said he belongs to the Democratic wing led by Bernie Sanders. The deputy highlighted that she has been working closely with Schumer on many issues and that this is what matters to her. “We’ll see…” he settled down.
Ocasio-Cortez was also asked about her possible aspirations for the White House in the future, to which she replied that she does not want to look to the long term so as not to question her commitment to her current job. “I know there are a lot of people who don’t believe this, but I can’t really operate the way I do and do the things I do in politics while trying to aspire to other things or calculate other things“, manifested himself.
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