Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took the rare step on Wednesday night of replying to neo-Nazi troll and former Trump dinner guest Nick Fuentes on X, where Elon Musk has allowed the avowed hatemonger to post again.

The exchange began after Ocasio-Cortez posted, “An unspoken secret in Congress is that much of the reflexive, blind, unconditional vote support for nearly any Israeli gov action isn’t from actual agreement. It’s from fear. Reps are terrified of this. Of AIPAC. So they don’t vote their conscience. They vote their fear.”

Fuentes, who has long denied the Holocaust and called for the execution of non-Christians, endorsed Ocasio-Cortez’s takedown of AIPAC, saying, “AOC is more America First than 99% of Republicans.”

Ocasio-Cortez replied, “You are a white supremacist and I want nothing to do with you nor the world you imagine. I believe in a multiracial democracy, one of economic rights, civil liberties, and that affirms the working class and the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people.”

“These are not small differences. They are irreconcilable. White supremacy is a scourge and must be disavowed in all places,” she added.

You are a white supremacist and I want nothing to do with you nor the world you imagine. I believe in a multiracial democracy, one of economic rights, civil liberties, and that affirms the working class and the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people.

These are not small differences.…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 20, 2024

Fuentes was recently kicked out of a Turning Point USA event and yelled as he was being removed, “Israel controls this event!” Fuentes leads the so-called Groyper Army, a loose network of alt-right figures who are vocal supporters of white supremacy, often trolling mainstream conservative events to try and move conservativism more toward the far-right.

Fuentes has long been active on the far right in American politics and in the past has hosted a conference meant to be counter-programming to CPAC, which included speeches by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ). Reports have recently tied a former aide in Gosar’s office to Fuentes and the Groypers.

Fuentes dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort days after the former president announced his 2024 presidential campaign as a guest of anti-Semitic rapper Kanye West. Fuentes and West also later appeared on Alex Jones’s InfoWars where West declared his affinity for Hitler, a regular talking point of Fuentes.

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