<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats love wearing costumes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think of Hillary Clinton walking around talking about hot sauce, or Kamala Harris changing her accent depending on where she is. It&#8217;s rare that a Democrat wins — particularly in a red or a purple state — by preaching openly for weakness on foreign policy or transing the kids or raising your taxes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s because honesty doesn&#8217;t tend to work out well for people who push this kind of stuff.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thus, Democrats frequently put on costumes, pretend, and lie.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What&#8217;s really fascinating is </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">how </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">they decide to pretend. What are they deciding to dress up as?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Wednesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wants to run for president in 2028, acted like a chameleon again. She’s already gone to a historically black church and started dropping her G&#8217;s; she’s shown up outside an immigration facility and cried at an empty parking lot.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-show-ep-2433?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-981859" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif" alt="" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-300x50.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-768x128.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But on Wednesday, she did something I have never seen before in American federal politics. She put on a hijab at an event.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That says something. It says something about her, about where the Left is going, and about where America is going.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It used to be that if you were a terrorist-supporting radical Muslim, you had to cosplay as a mainstream American, or at least get the media to do your dirty work for you. But now, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats are cosplaying as Muslims</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or as fellow travelers to radicals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s the salient point: Radical Islamists in America </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">aren&#8217;t cosplaying</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> anymore. Ilhan Omar doesn&#8217;t cosplay. Neither does Zohran Mamdani. Neither does Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. They may sometimes pretend to hide some of their more radical Islamist edges, but they&#8217;re not really trying to hide the ball.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now AOC is cosplaying as one of those types.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other Democrats are playing dress-up, too; Maine Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner is wearing a Trump voter costume. (At least what the Left thinks Trump voters are like.) Or James Talarico, the Senate Democratic candidate in Texas, who&#8217;s pretending to be a Bible-thumping Christian who loves ribs when actually he just loves transing the kids.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up to an Eid dinner with Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani showed up in a thobe, the long robe worn by Muslims for the holiday. Mamdani is precisely who you think Mamdani is: a radical Islamist who is masquerading as a Gen Z TikToker. He&#8217;s a socialist who wants to bring down the country.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the story is AOC wearing a hijab. She was clearly wearing a scarf to look like a hijab.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Muslim countries all over the world, hijabs for women are mandatory. If you do not wear it in places like Iran, they will kill you. In radical Islamist countries, you will be punished.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There has been a long-standing tacit bipartisan policy in the United States that when women go to the Middle East, they don’t wear the hijab. In 2007, Laura Bush went to Saudi Arabia. No hijab. Condoleeza Rice went to Saudi Arabia; no hijab. Nancy Pelosi in Saudi Arabia? No hijab. Hillary Clinton in Saudi Arabia in 2012? No hijab. Michelle Obama in 2015?  No hijab.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why does this matter? Because when Western women go to the Islamic world, they are making a point, which is that they are </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">going to be forced into a traditional Islamic hair covering that has been used for hundreds of years as a way to treat women as second-class citizens.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2016, former German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen —  not a Right-winger — went to the Middle East. She did not cover her hair this way and said, “No woman in my delegation has to wear the abaya” ( a different kind of head covering). &#8220;The right to choose your own clothing is a right shared by men and women alike. It annoys me when women are pushed into wearing the abaya.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote in her memoir about the time she visited Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince handed her an abaya. She wrote, “The Crown Prince pulled out a gift-wrapped package. ‘I have a gift for you,’ he said. It was a full-length, beautifully embroidered abaya, the black robe and veil Saudi women traditionally wear. ‘I had it made especially for you,’ he said tenderly. ‘Our women wear them.’ Yes, as a sign of oppression, I thought.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Correct. Hundreds of millions of women around the world are forced to wear these sorts of head coverings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You&#8217;ll notice I&#8217;m not talking about Ilhan Omar wearing a hijab. She&#8217;s a Muslim woman. If she wants to wear a hijab, that’s her business.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No Jew has ever asked a politician to put on a kippah. If you&#8217;re a non-Jewish man, there&#8217;s literally no reason to do it. Don&#8217;t do it. It&#8217;s stupid; it&#8217;s dumb. As an Orthodox Jew, I have never, ever seen an Orthodox Jew ask a woman to wear what&#8217;s called a shaytl, a wig used as a religious hair-covering.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a category for generic hair coverings, such as women putting on a veil to cover their hair when visiting the Vatican. They want to cover their hair out of respect.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But that&#8217;s not what AOC was doing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She made an overt choice. She put on a hijab for a reason.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We should ask what the reason is, because all over the world, hijab is a sign of the submission of women. There&#8217;s a reason France has banned certain types of head coverings in public spaces: it sees them as a form of submission to radicalism.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">why AOC did it. This was not a bug or a mistake; this was a feature. She was cosplaying in solidarity with foreign radicalism. She was cosplaying as a member of the supposedly “oppressed foreign contingent” in the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She believes the rising tide in the Democratic Party is foreigners who come to the United States and say that America sucks. She believes that Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Zohran Mamdani are the rising tide; all immigrants to the United States or children of immigrants who decide that America is horrible and that the problems of the world must be laid at America&#8217;s feet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She was signaling solidarity with all of that. This was not a sign of generic religion or respect for Muslims. Everything she does is scripted, a deliberate choice.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you truly believe AOC got up in the morning, grabbed a scarf from the shelf, decided she was going to wear it, and it just coincidentally looked like a hijab, you&#8217;re being deliberately ignorant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was a virtue signal to the people who believe that America is responsible for all the problems of the world, that third-world cultures all over the world have been put upon by the United States. She was signaling her solidarity with that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was not a generic symbol. Politics is all about the symbolic. It&#8217;s all about how we use speech. It&#8217;s about how people act, and it&#8217;s about the symbols that they choose to identify with.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AOC would not wear garb that was redolent with Trumpism. AOC is not going to walk out of her house wearing an American flag t-shirt.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There&#8217;s nothing new about the cosplay; Democrats do it all the time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AOC is clearly preparing for a presidential run. She believes that there is a rising majority of people who despise this country, who think the country is responsible for all the ills of the world, and that she can activate the most passionate base in primaries in order to get her over the top.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s why she&#8217;s doing what she&#8217;s doing.</span></p>

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