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.
The public shifted because gas hit $6/gal. I don’t disagree that class consciousness is growing, but I don’t think it’s as prevalent in the real world as it is online. And more importantly, I don’t think the party apparatus of the DNC is remotely ready to hand over power to the progressive wing. They will use their oligarchs’ money to promote right wingers like Newsom.
They didn’t lose the midterms only on gas prices.
The graph of rise in gas prices maps almost perfectly with lost support for the Republicans.
Those two graphs map like 1:1
I agree with you. Things don’t always have nuance and sometimes correlation does equal causation. There was lots of stuff going on, but that was the main thing.
And that is one sad motherfucking state of affairs.
I actually tried to find the stat for you, because I saw it on a dependable news channel and it shocked me because it was like 1:1.
Let me see if I can get Jamie to pull that up for me, hey Jamie!
It’s not the only thing that voters were mad about, but it didn’t help Republicans, that’s for sure.
For sure.
Agreed, there were many things that influenced people in a variety of ways, but cost of living is the one big thing that impacts everybody.
All valid points. Although I think conservatives are the ones who are only upset by the gas prices. I suspect the rest of the normally disengaged public may have become engaged in the midterms for the litany of other good reasons as well.
Conservatives obviously can’t change, but my hope is that the normal people will continue to become more and more upset during the remaining time Trump has in office.
By November 2028, if we stay on this course, we might be primed for another dramatic shift left which could affect some components of DNC leadership.
Ejecting conservatives from DNC leadership is the real test, in my opinion.
I like your hope and I want to agree with it, but I also am wary of assuming that normal people are even as aware of news and politics as much as we would hope, let alone care enough about it to do something. I know I live in a bubble of people who care, and Lemmy obviously is its own very specific bubble. I don’t want to take for granted that the majority of people align with my worldview.
Your fears are valid. My fear has subsided slightly because of the midterms. My hope comes from focusing on the next two years only right now.
Beyond that, I worry for the long-term that we may be unable to make extreme reforms: removing money from politics, ending gerrymandering, reforming SCOTUS, dissolving billionaire control of media, etc.
It all seems overwhelming and unlikely. But an overwhelming progressive push for long enough is exactly what it would take to accomplish it.
I don’t get the hate for Newsom. From what I’ve seen he’s doing a good job.
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.
Fighting against a billionaire’s tax, hating on trans people, and sleeping with your best friend’s wife? Count me out! If he’s the candidate, I wouldn’t vote for him.
Listen, I only know what I know from what I see from abroad. Could you provide some links or verification for what you say? Because I read a lot of US news, but it’s a bit much to keep track of, so, for me, from what I’ve read in actual articles, I’ve been on his side for a lot of the more controversial topics, because he’s had some 50/50 decisions, like that one thing with trans…
So the bill was like, you allow gender affirming care AND allow other states to extradite citizens from California from seeking GAC in Ca if they come there specifically for that reason.
Which is extremely fucked up. It’s pork barrelling, as far as I see it, and I think Newsom catches a lot of flak from the queer crowd even though his decisions protect them from nazi state interference…
I’d love to hear your thoughts on that.
What? Really? That allowed other states to extradite those in the state specifically for GAC?
He’s a standard corporate Dem that looks out for oligarchs before working people. He recently opposed the ballot measure that would have put a one-time wealth tax on billionaires.
He threw trans people under the bus.
How? How did he do that exactly?
And everyone not in the 0.1%
Not to minimize what he did to us, but to show he’s not only problematic for trans people.
I mean that’s the same single issue shit that the Republicans do with the 2A. What’s the difference? “He’s not 100% perfect, therefore I will refuse to vote for him and let Republicans take a seat that will for sure be worse for my cause”
It’s Palestine all over again
We just mentioned two issues. There are plenty more. You didn’t even ask. You can love the corporate, pro-genocide, anti-trans, wealth protecting guy if you want.
I think that’s closer to maga than my viewpoint. But I understand that we’re easier targets than they are, and you’re really feeling yourself right now
Bonus points for calling my safety a political issue.
True, true. It was just the first issue that came to mind.
It’s the only thing that comes to your mind, though, and that’s a pretty big issue. That’s single issue shit, like 2A shit or something. You expect solidarity, but you’re not willing to give it.
That’s a lot of incorrect assumptions you just made.
And you have nothing more to say about that I bet.
I know. That’s how most of you just shut down discussion.
I’ve seen it too many fucking times and it gets tiring. Shape up. Get your arguments in order or nobody will ever take you serious. Just like nobody takes you seriously now.
Or is the victimhood the point?
He is fighting against the billionaire tax.
How is he doing that? You got a bill or something he voted against? Because I hear a lot of criticism but not a lot of sources.
Please don’t “google it bro” me, please. I want to know exactly what you guys have a problem with and I have for some time and I never hear anything concrete.
Please mind, I’m not from the USA, I try to keep up as best I can, but from my point of view he has some pretty sensible politics.
Here is the first google result of Gavin Newsom billionaire tax.
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