Independent Senator Bernie Sanders floated Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a potential presidential candidate in the 2028 elections, saying that even though it’s “her decision to make,” she is a “very, very good politician.”
Speaking to Axios, Sanders said that he has been “out on the streets with her” and noticed how she responds when people come up to her. “It’s so incredibly genuine and open.”
Ocasio-Cortez is seemingly positioning herself to run for higher office, whether it is challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his seat or to make a run for president.
Distasteful shit like what? Funding ICE? Bombing a dozen countries in the middle east? Cutting social security?
Or did you mean things that are distasteful to people who would never vote democrat, but wildly popular among potential democrat voters like prosecuting Trump and as many republicans as possible, sending the FCC after rightwing media, ordering the military to provide healthcare to women, cutting all aid to Israel, etc.
Distasteful like: “Use SCOTUS’ ruling on the president having unlimited powers to immediately arrest or remove corrupt MAGA officials and judges”.
The latter. But extreme measures: I also don’t think we have time to wade through legal processes and spend years in court before the country collapses. The next president needs to be prepared to, Day 1, declare a state of emergency and send Clarence Thomas to Guantanamo Bay, for example. (Well not literally day 1 because first they need to find and evict all the Trump loyalists and potential assassins in the executive branch, at least at the upper levels, so that they are even able to issue such an order – but you get the idea).
That’s a big overreach of executive power that many people will not be comfortable with, and history may not look fondly upon it…or maybe it will, if it proves necessary to save us from Trump’s damage.
Do you genuinely believe that enacting your constituents will, especially if you can do it while violating as many norms as possible is unpopular with those constituents?
Second question: How many times have you watched the entirety of Westwing?
I don’t think most constituents would be happy with a dictatorship? Trump is doing horrible things, but the way in which he does them is horrible as well. But I do think fighting fire with fire is necessary, considering how close we are to collapse.
I haven’t seen West Wing. Heard good things though