AOC: Democracies must deliver for workers to ward off authoritarians

At the Munich Security Conference, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that Western democracies must deliver tangible gains for the working class to counter rising authoritarianism, faulting past policies like NAFTA and the Iraq War, and urging urgent wealth‑tax action. She stressed that elites who don’t deliver economic improvements threaten the rules‑based order, noted the broader foreign‑policy context and debates on allies, Taiwan, and Iran, and hinted at her ongoing political ascent amid speculation about a possible presidential bid.