She has presidential material. that’s why conservative media was so quick to try to vilify her.
I’d LOVE to see her run in 2028.
It’s too soon. She’s young; we want her to help the progressive cause for years and decades to come. If she were to become president in 2028, she would be retiring after she served, like every other president does, and we would lose her voice.
she would be retiring after she served, like every other president does, and we would lose her voice.
That’s not a rule, you know. John Quincy Adams served in the House after being President, Andrew Johnson became a Senator, and Taft got appointed to the SCOTUS.
Fair point.
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She’s obviously Bernie’s heir apparent and will replace him as The Left Wing Democrat to come in 2nd in the primaries now that he’s too old and she’s old enough.
On a more optimistic note, a true heir to Bernie will know how to negotiate with the center left to accomplish some of their goals in exchange for the support of progressives to win elections.
I don’t want her to be NYC mayor, either. I want her to be President!
Seconded.
As much as this is the dream, she is not electable in American politics for president.
American society is clearly too far behind
Being NYC Mayor is harder than being President. You’ve got the same 24/7 spotlight and much less actual power.
If Giuliani could do it how hard can it be? Seems that you don’t even have to have a grasp on reality.
9/11 era Giuliani was more coherent. The man is losing it.
You mean the same Giuliani who lost an election and took a mob of racisr police to occupy city hall to prevent a black guy from being sworn in as mayor?
Someone lied to you.
David Dinkins was Mayor before Giuliani.
He lost his election.
Rudy did bring a mob of cops to city hall, but they never “occupied” it.
I hate Rudy as much as anyone, but keep the facts straight.
The man is losing it.
LOL that happened a long time ago.
In some ways you have more concentrated power.
To quote a mayor of NYC: “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.”
Why would she want to demote herself to mayor? That wouldn’t make any sense.
Mayor is generally a demotion. Mayor of NYC is like being an authoritarian over a small but major nation with large, critical economy and the 7th largest army in the world. So arguably that would actually be a large step up for AOC, if we’re just talking about pure power and authority.
NYC is 7.4% of the US economy. I’m saying that to agree with you, that’s bigger than Florida, bigger than every state other than CA, TX, and (obviously) NY.
and (obviously) NY.
Stupid recursion
Thanks to the antics of old time Mayor Jimmy Walker and Tammany Hall, a lot of NY’s power is controlled by the Governor of NY State.
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