She’s embarked on a nationwide tour with Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, held town halls outside of her district in upstate New York, and raised $15 million
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive who has cemented her popularity with young voters, is reportedly considering running for president or the Senate in 2028.
Ocasio-Cortez, 35, made a splash when she was elected to represent New York’s 14th congressional district, located in the Bronx and Queens, in 2019. Now, the Democrat is reportedly considering taking the next step in her political career as the party searches for its next generation of leaders, Axios reported Friday.
Members of Ocasio-Cortez’s team have recently been positioning the progressive lawmaker, known as AOC, to either run for president or run for a Senate seat.
Stranger things have happened. They elected a black guy for one.
And 30% of the fucking country proceeded to lose their gotdamn minds about it.
While another 30% declared we had “defeated racism” and decided it’s okay to halt all efforts to remediate past racial bias or prevent future racial bias in the system.
Sorry; unmedicated.
I hope you are wrong (and I think I might agree with you - I’m dubious about enough Americans being able to be man enough to vote for a woman, so I guess that means I hope we are both wrong), but I’m also bracing myself for the absolute tidal wave of Murc’s Law that will follow in an attempt to excuse all of the worst tendencies of the hard right if we were to elect a woman that is also a POC.
If the conservatives go for someone even far worse than Taco (and face it: they ain’t going back to the methadone of someone like a Romney or a W or a McCain after they have been mainlining the China White of pure Taco for over a decade now. If anything, they need to up the dosages of the hatred and the grievances.), there will be lots of analysis about how the liberals made them do it, because, look, what choice did they even have? The liberals elected not only a woman, but another POC! It’s almost like the liberals learned nothing from electing Obama for two terms!