Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused establishment Democrats of treating her “like shit” as progressive activists urged her to run for president in 2028.
In a 100-minute long video posted on Instagram, the 37-year-old congresswoman from New York said that the party had a “remarkable opportunity” to pass left-wing policies after the midterm elections. She also accused the party’s leadership of starving funds from left-wing candidates during the campaign.
“There’s this huge conversation about candidates that were under invested in,” Ocasio-Cortez said. She cited Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who came within 240,000 votes of flipping Florida from red to blue, but ultimately lost to the Republican candidate Ashley Moody.
“If Angie Nixon had just had a little bit of that support, that outcome could have changed. But that money has to come from somewhere and it comes from these people,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the party’s Senate leadership.
Reflecting on the period after she was first elected to Congress in 2018 at the age of 29, Ocasio-Cortez accused senior Democrats of being “horrifically cruel” to her. “I mean I was treated like shit,” she said. “Everybody took a swing at me.”
The Bronx congresswoman is seen as the likeliest progressive candidate to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.
He is a snake that adopts progressive policies when it suits him, then drops them when the political winds shift if when they threaten capital. He opposed the cali wealth tax. Hes thrown trans kids under the bus retorically.
Newsom has done good things. He was the mayor of San fransisco in like 2002 that issued marriage licenses to gay couples before it was popular or even legal. But he is not our friend and he doesn’t seem to have principled beliefs, just political instincts.
Who is “us”? Friend of whom? We’re not a monolith.
And I hear what you’re saying, but it’s all hearsay to me. I’ve watched his politicking and he’s fighting the good fight, I think. And I’m afraid people are so hypersensitive now that they will interpret anything he does as anti-“them” and just refuse to vote, giving the republicans a very easy fight because nobody is voting.
That’s the plight of a two party state. But if you have something you think particularly he did wrong or was unforgivable, give me the source and I will read up on it and see what it’s about, because I have so far, and I can see what is maneuver and what is a semblance of idealism.