AOC just accused the GOP of ‘radicalizing and exploiting young boys’

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave Gen Z yet another reason to flee the Democrat Party.

During a CNN town hall event on Wednesday, alongside fellow socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the New York congresswoman smeared Republicans with a litany of false accusations and condescending rhetoric about masculinity, among other topics.

Ocasio-Cortez lectured about how Republicans are “radicalizing and exploiting young boys.”

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them. pic.twitter.com/Ci1JjgrpV5

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 16, 2025

After declaring that the GOP believes “women are inferior… they do not deserve equal rights,” she went on to claim that Republicans are driving men away from “healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.”

The remarks came in response to a question about why Republicans are more effective on social media than Democrats. Before she chimed in with her masculinity rant, Sanders responded by claiming the GOP’s “friends” own “all of the major social media platforms.”

Dem GWU student: Why is the GOP so much more effective on social media?
Bernie: GOP OWNS SOCIAL MEDIA! SOCIALISM!
AOC: Authenticity, toxic masculinity, white supremacy so Elon, Zuck, Thiel get tax cuts

AOC will impose censorship first chance she gets pic.twitter.com/OMlc4t5D0F

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 16, 2025

AOC’s take on the topic earned her plenty of blowback on social media, where X users reminded her why Democrats continue to lose young men to the GOP.

“AOC’s smear of Republicans here is WHY young men are voting for Republicans,” conservative commentator Steve Guest posted.

“So sick of leftists and their condescending savior complex projecting their bigotry of low expectations,” Daniel Garza wrote on X.

Aannndddd, AOC just show us why they fail at messaging, digital or otherwise.

— Founding Son (@JeanLucsDad) October 16, 2025

A word salad worthy of Kamala

— Cash Loren (@CashLorenShow) October 16, 2025

You told them any form of masculinity was toxic and it has backfired gloriously.

— Casey Skelton (@caseyskelton) October 16, 2025

These people have learned absolutely nothing, and they will continue to lose voters because of it. Stop woke scolding men, it’s the most off putting thing ever and it’s just going to continue to build resentment.

— P.T. Ward (@HTWardish) October 16, 2025

Yes, instead we should have drag story time and sex books in school to “educate” our young male leaders and protectors and future fathers and family protectors got it

— Just-the-facts (@Justthefac4416) October 16, 2025

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.