Friday, September 11, 2026 · Independent editorial

God is not a progressive PAC

On the anniversary of September 11, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood in front of the National Baptist Convention in Orlando and said she is “amazed watching how God works” through progressive politics. Mariane Angela’s report for Breitbart is the write-up. This is not a small aside in a long speech. She offered her politics as evidence of God.

She talked about the stops she made with Sen. Bernie Sanders in places pundits had written off. “Why would you go to Idaho? Why would you go to Montana? Why would you go to Utah?” she asked. “I felt very called.” Then she called a court ruling a miracle. “We said we must have the faith of a mustard seed. We must organize anyway. One year later, out of nowhere, a judge strikes down Utah’s map and they are ordered to redraw. And it is only because of the organizing that we did in faith when there was no evidence.”

The map fight did not start at her rally. Breitbart notes that Utah voters passed an anti-gerrymandering measure in 2018. Judge Dianna Gibson struck down the Republican-drawn congressional map in August 2025. You can be glad or angry about that ruling. You should not let a politician baptize a court calendar as the fruit of her stump speech. That is the Lord’s name used the way a PAC uses a mailing list.

She also said a Missoula rally drew “something like 20,000 people.” Reporting on the 2025 event put the crowd closer to 7,500 to 9,000. Her May 2026 rally for Sam Forstag drew about 800. She closed by predicting a Florida Senate win for Angie Nixon, a Democratic Socialists of America member. Of the Trump years she said, “You’ve got someone coming in making a mess of everything and that allows us to rebuild it all from scratch.”

Mustard-seed faith, in the Gospel, is about the kingdom of God. It is not a turnout goal, and it is not permission to remake the country from scratch and call the rubble holy. Baptist pulpits exist to preach Christ. A convention speech is not the Holy Spirit, and a party is not a church, including when our own side treats it like one.

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