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.
Great. Let’s have a presidential candidate who is ‘a victim’. How could that possibly go wrong.
A victim who fights back can be powerful.
In my opinion, victimhood is not a characteristic I look for in a leader.
It’s a good thing victims aren’t defined by their victimhood then.
All declared victims are defined by their victimhood. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be told about the transgression.
What a lovely opinion. I hope something horrible happens to you and you never speak about it and it eats at you like cancer.
What the fuck is wrong with you. Why would you think this is OK to say?
I’m not saying she wasn’t treated horribly by some people. I am saying that being treated horribly by some people doesn’t automatically make her a leader. Do you get the difference?
Who’s saying that it automatically makes her a leader? From where did you get that man of straw? You are saying you don’t think people who are victims of things should be leaders for some reason. That’s like fucking crazy shit. Or do you mean people who are public about times they were victims? Like doesn’t it take courage to be public about that, she’s still working with them after all.
I’ve been reading a lot of her being a potential Presidential candidate. I don’t give someone bonus points because someone (or someones) said something mean about them and they ‘survived’. Let’s try just a little and keep the integrity of the word ‘survivor’ and ‘victim’. She is a very privileged person who is neither.
She never called herself a survivor, that’s usually something you reserve for rape, or gun violence. You just aren’t being very consistent, look what you said here vs what you said to me previously. No one is saying being a victim makes you a good candidate, and no one is calling her a survivor. You are doing all of those things.
She’s standing with a junior senator, confirming the treatment that he was describing exists because she experienced it and demanding better. I’m not even sure where you are getting anything of this, it’s all a series of arguments you have created.
Oh sorry I see someone called her a survivor in the comments, that person is a moron and no article has that tone.
I’m many ways she is one of the most successful politicians in a generation. What should she have done differently, do you think?
I think she’s doing everything right, or very close to it. In my opinion (worth nothing I know) I think she just needs some time to develop relationships in the party giving her more power.
Worked for Trump.
I have you tagged as a zionist. You sure you wanna go down this road? There’s a certain country that justifies genocide through their victimhood complex
Define zionist for me.
She’s a survivor, not a victim. She’s survived being treated by shit and is still in Congress.
Sure. Survivor from people speaking bad words at her. Not my definition of ‘survivor’ but you do you.