AOC says ‘Woke 1 was crazy,’ but Democrats still owe voters an explanation

"Woke 1 was crazy."

New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently borrowed the phrase from New York City Councilman Chi Ossé to describe the politics of 2020. "Woke 1" gives Democrats a convenient way to put ideas such as defunding the police and abolishing prisons in the past. That was then. This is now. There’s a psychological term for this kind of separation: compartmentalization.

Consider how compartmentalization works in ordinary life. A married man can have a wife...