Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s flirtation with a presidential run is the latest warning sign of just how far the Democratic Party’s leadership has careened off the rails.
After crushing defeats in the latest election, moderate Democrats have failed to take matters into their own hands, continuing to kneel to the strength of the far-left wing of their party who champion socialism, divisive class warfare, and pipe dreams that seem to have come straight out of fairytales.
While there haven’t yet been any formal statements from the democratic socialist congresswoman, reports based on individuals familiar with her operations have confirmed that her team is actively positioning her for a White House or Senate campaign in 2028.
AOC’s message is abhorrently popular among Democrats, and Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral election, is essentially a male equivalent of AOC. He and many other socialists have championed absurd and dangerous policies that would wreck cities, states and our country if they were enacted.
Unfortunately for moderates like New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, AOC, despite her complete failure to accomplish anything of substance in Congress, excels at one thing New York’s current senators do not: getting her message across.
This should frighten Schumer and Gillibrand, as both have faced mounting criticism for their actions and inactions.
While Schumer is very effective at reaching people through the media, he is not nearly as effective at persuading them of his views as AOC is. As Senate minority leader, he struck a compromise with Republicans in March 2025 to avert a government shutdown, even though Democrats have long portrayed Republicans as the sole cause of such crises. In response, Democrats like AOC, backed by the far-left media, rallied the party in calling for Schumer’s resignation. That compromise, reasonable and, in many ways, a demonstration of Schumer’s leadership, was nonetheless viewed as a betrayal of the Democratic Party, or at least AOC’s vision of what the Democratic Party should be.
And of course, many New Yorkers have viewed Gillibrand as a sort of low-hanging fruit who has been effectively absent. She’s evidently realized this and has, at least in the past year, come a bit further out of the woodwork to try and establish herself as her next campaign approaches.
AOC would not be planning one of these runs if she didn’t think she had a chance. No doubt her internal polling shows promise, and myriad factors, such as Mamdani’s high likelihood of winning New York City, and the massive, unprecedented ground operation he’s built in the state, particularly among young voters, have created a perfect storm to provide her with a real chance at getting real power.
The problem with democratic socialists is that they push ideas built on the fears and dreams of people across the United States who hope for a better tomorrow. Their message is always resoundingly utopian. Everybody succeeds. Everybody gets what they want. In a perfect world, if these objectives were feasible, it would be difficult to argue against them. But we don’t live in a perfect world. For every utopian ideal of a socialist, there is some major tradeoff that comes with it.
Want free college for everyone? Lower standards, worse educational quality, and fewer resources for students who need them most. Want universal health care overnight? Rationed care, longer wait times, worse services, and fewer health care breakthroughs.
But fortunately for democratic socialists, they can count on young, naive kids to believe in a better future that can be achieved without great consequence. We all recognize that wherever socialism or communism has been implemented, things have gone horribly wrong, and nations have fallen. We are a country built on capitalism, and we are the strongest in the world because of it. Becoming socialist would not make us better off. It would destroy us.
AOC’s real chance at taking a higher office should be a dire warning for Democrats. While she thrives on slogans and utopian promises that mask a destructive reality that evidently she can’t foresee, her ability to capture attention and mobilize followers gives her far more influence than her thin record of accomplishments deserves.
If Democrats continue to bend to her and the democratic socialist movement she embodies, they risk not only fracturing their party but dragging the country toward policies that would erode the very foundation of American strength. God help us all if she succeeds.
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The very fact that this nut-job is even a possible contender shows how desperate dems are. Unfortunately there’s no shortage of people who cannot comprehend history.
AOC is an idiot and those who put her in office to begin with are the same…but then, that’s NY. If she were in the white house, we’d be done for good, she’s worse than Biden.
One should go back and study history based on the first American colony Jamestown. This colony was initially set up based on socialism and failed immeasurably and discover why that happened. If we don’t learn from our past mistakes then we are in big trouble. Again one must ask themselves are we not teaching history in our schools.
WJS is right, hunger was the result of collective farming, the minute each family got their own plot to tend to miraculously there was production and enough surplus for trading. It was harsh, brutal life but they’ve made it.Socialism is a theory that works on paper, it does not consider human nature.There is not one commune that had not failed.Voter by now should know that.
“Becoming socialist would not make us better off. It would destroy us.”
From what I have witnessed the goal of the democrat party is to destroy this country. Sadly RINO’s are working toward the same thing, destruction of the United States.
I would hope that people scrutinize AOC. She spits stuff out of her mouth and does not research and can’t prove anything she’s saying is true. I know New Yorkers will bite, but others hopefully will be more diligent in checking her story. She pulls ideas out of the air and shoots them off and her followers praise her. She only wants power that is what all the socialist in government want. But what they may get is another civil war.
AOC is bad news. If she wins, we won’t have a country anymore. Everything will be lost.
Since when is Chuck Schumer a moderate? There is no such thing in the Democrat Party. The whole party spouses top down control of the economic and social aspects of American society. Their aim is permanent power over the United States.
One thing that we have that socialist countries do not have – We are very well armed.
We need to revive Eisenhower’s Communist Control Act of 1954 and re-enact all its provisions that have been repealed, or otherwise nullified by democrats, or other Marxist minions. If we don’t all our cities will by hook, or by election fraud crook be run by Cuban, or Chinese sponsored Marxist crooks in the near future, LA, Chicago, and New York being the frontrunners already. Socialism/Marxism/Communism/Fascism/Statism/Globalism is diametrically opposed to our Constitution and any one of them taking the oath of office is perjuring themselves while they speak because their ideology has the destruction of our Constitution as its central dogma. Having a “legalized” communist party in the U.S. is like legalized murder of our nation.
Why is this article and most of the media continuing to call these people Socialists? They are Communists, clear and to the point, and they must be taken down before they do the damage they promise to do.Tragically, long time Democrat regulars have no spine, no courage to challenge any of them. Watch Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, Jayapal, the Squad, Warren, etc. gush over the appalling and abhorrent Mamdani and AOC. The ONLY Democrat with cojones now is Sen. Fetterman, the guy no one believed would be elected, yet who stands up to these gruesome goons with common sense and sincerity.
It actually makes me feel sick that people like this are amassing so much power.
The democrats are all screaming but saying nothing. If the right media would just ignore them like the Legacy media does about border control and lawlessness in this country. They wouldn’t rise to popularity. Just ignore them. All the democrats have are puppets programmed to talk but no substance. They wouldn’t know how to deal with a foreign adversary. These adversaries are onto their lies and manipulation. Let’s just let them scream and yell but don’t give them a microphone. It will die out by itself.
I don’t understand why anyone with road walking sense would pay any attention to this crazy twerp. Seems like over half the people in these democrat run states have lost their collective minds.
AOC, Actress, Barmaid, Soros shill, Clueless moron, weapon of mass distraction belongs Gitmp
Liked the article from Veteran in regards to reviving the Communist Control Act of 1954. We have the GOP in control right now. I would bombard Pres. Trump all the way down to all Republicans with a notice to get on board with this. I am a veteran also. We have sacrificed so many to stop Communism from spreading. Wake up America and stop believing all the lies they are promising. Thanks.
I have to say “Brains are awesome, I wish everybody had one:! Obviously AOC doesn’t have one. This woman is an airhead. I hope New York has enough sense to vote her out, if not I will wonder if anyone in New York has a brain!
God has nothing to do with it . Get off the couch and vote . Now the nutjobs are the smartest in the room don’t give them any ideas let them turn New York city into Detroit , Chicago into Detroit. Burned out abandoned rat infested cities and don’t give a penny of federal aid . Schumer a moderate are you kidding me ??? Where you been the last ten years .
Anyone who has an ounce of sense when listening to AOC & her counterpart Mandami, would realize that all they are doing is table-risers talking rhetoric theories that sound generically sound but have no proven evidence of every being successful, rather than just dealing with the cause of the problems faced by most people who are not ever going to earn high wages based on the way society works. Just calling for fair taxation hurts only those who actually pay taxes with earned on the books income and encourages more people to turn to off book earnings to avoid paying taxes. And it encourages utilization of cheap labor more. And this comes from a woman who earns a 6 figure salary, that she claims is not enough to support herself and yet she is able to extensively travel across the country and raise large sums of “donation” while doing very little to improve( except for her devoted fans/friends) in her district which has downgraded to pre-slum status with all the unlicensed street vendors who block the legal businesses from customers along with other illegal activities occurring on the streets of her area And only 15% of the population comes out to vote come any given election. So who is she representing?
If AOC wins, we won’t have a country anymore. We will lose everything.
When I was in the military we would have put her in jail for being an enemy to our country, what is wrong that this behavior is acceptable!!!
Unfortunately for moderates like New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, there ain’t no such animal.
Ha! I’m not surprised, especially after the US News photos and report about the ICE protesters in New York. I’ve never seen so many leftist, socialist, liberals in one place before. Things surely aren’t the nice, cultural, civilized place I grew up in anymore in New York!!! God help us
If Mamdani wins and destroys NYC, AOC will thereafter get laughed off the stage as a complete wack-job, who’s a carbon copy image of Mamdani! This is assuming of course that those in NYC are actually capable of learning hard lessons!
That media darling is as free of brains as a bird is of teeth. Senior female Dems, i.e., Wasserman-Shultz, Pelosi, Lofgren) should have mentored her, Instead, they let her run amok and she has now become a Frankenstein. Cortez and her ilk (Presley, Talib, Omar, Jayapal, Crocket) took the party to a level where they are losing mainstream voters. As Tucker Carlson so aptly put it, “The Dems have become the party of weak men and angry women.” Keep the nutcase on air, I say!
SCARY!!!
The awful obtuse cretin (aoc) is nothing but a lying BS artist and a complete moron. She’s right there with the other idiot, mamdani. Who in their right mind wants to implement things that the USSR was throwing off back in 1999??? SMH All these morons are promising the fools that follow them are: a life of abject poverty, unqualified misery, food and medical shortages, and early death. They are no good, and their policies have brought disaster to every country that’s tried them. Good grief, people, the Venezuelan people were forced to eat their dogs and cats because of their communist regime. Do you want to pay more for bread than you will for two fifth-bottles of booze? Do you want to stand in line for potentially days just to buy a loaf of bread or other groceries? You people in the “gimmee gimmee” gang better think long and hard before following these liars. They’re promising you a lot of freebies that they can’t deliver and have no intention of delivering. Open your eyes. I know you’re looking for a free ride in life, but to jump on the bandwagon of socialists/communists is just stupid, and it’s ushering in your own demise.
Socialism would destroy AMERICA,PERIOD,You cannot have the middle class working very hard to make a living to support people that have learned how to work the system and the leftists seem to like socialistic AMERICA.Nothing is free and it’s usually the working class that loses.
It worries me that, in this day and age, there are folks who would ACTUALLY vote for this twit…
At 96 years old. I have not lived Cuba or any other socialist/communist country. However, I’ve seen/read enough about the history, of this, and talked to relatives that fled from such governments. The conclusion: communism/socialism works for the rulers, not the majority of common people.
It would be a disaster, for the USA to embrace this, after living,
in this capitalistic society,
Vultures, like AOC, feed off the discontent of our American Youth. Our Youth have many insurmountable problems. Everything is outrageously expensive, especially education and health care. All jobs are given on the basis of race and gender preferences, to the particular exclusion of white males. In most parts of our country, a person needs an income of $150.000 to purchase a home. Add to all this, the fact that most young people were spoiled by their affluent baby boom generation parents. When the parents are gone or unable to provide that good life anymore, there is a problem. When that happens, socialist fairy tales may be the youths’ last hope.
Vote for J.D. Vance. He’s the only choice in 2028.
AOC will Destroy The United States as we know it!
Why is it the democrats seem to pick the stupidest of the pack to lead? Even animals know to pick the most intelligent, strongest to lead their packs. This woman is a fruitcake to the extreme.
Hopefully, the democrats left with a brain will refuse to allow a total idiot to run this country. Although, in hindsight, they voted for a man who had already been diagnosed with dementia. Go figure.
On the other hand that 2020 election was so fraudulent, maybe we have all gotten smarter now and will never allow such a thing to happen again.
Voter ID, must be a US citizen, no voting in multiple states, mail in voting only to people who cannot physically get to the polling places or are out of the country serving in the Military.
The democrats have shown the world that they will sink to the depths of Hell to win. We must stop them by keeping the elections honest and fair.
The something-for-nothing crowd may fall for AOC’s smoke and mirrors, but I doubt that us intelligent workers will do so! After all, SOMEBODY has to pay the bills!
AOC and Mamdami are merely obedient soldiers in Comrade Obama’s army.
AOC is completely insane all the time.
I love that quote….going to have a poster made up, and hang it in my supply at work.
Look at the past proponents of Socialism in recent history; Hitler, the Nazi regime, left little room for doubt. The National Socialist Party truly was ideologically socialist in name and in deed.
Look at Stalin, Marx, and Lenin in the former Soviet Union.
FDR was a socialist, and so it follows that this democrat dimwit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a barmaid, would endorse this perverted system.
It’s a fool’s paradise that has been tried and always failed.
If it sounds too good to be true, it is. This should be the mantra of every Republican, with examples of how bad socialism is. The younger generations were never taught about the evils of socialism/communism, like we were in school. We need to enlighten them every chance we get. Republicans need to be on social media highlighting all the bad things that have become of socialism. This is where these people hang out. Teach them where they are.
“moderates like New York Sens. Chuck Schumer“???? Schumer moderate??? What is this guy smoking? I guess if compared to AOC maybe, but in the wide less view not even close.
Thank You Mr. Churchill.
Not bad for a bartender a few years back—$$MILLIONS in her bank account, has a few ears that drink her kewlaid, and a GREAT LIAR [perfect for a politician].
AOC already is our nightmare! Jasmine C., and Ilhan O. are also part of a nightmare too!
Aoc is as shrewd as the devil (who always fails) but, even he dragged one third of the angels with him. I am sure those miserable angels would change sides now- if they could. God raise up a godly contender for these wicked pretenders!
When I was a kid, I used to read MAD Magazine. In one issue they had a segment called “The moment before the disaster.” The fact that AOC’s people are priming her for higher office is that moment before the disaster. She has not done anything for NYC expect dig up more lunatics like Zorhan Mamdani and that does not help anyone.
it is up to the people as far as mamdani and aoc are concerned!
THE PEOPLE
Please stop drinking the kool-aid people and use some common sense, our current situation is is exactly what your describing where the left will take!
This woman is dumber than a box of rocks and how anyone can look at her and think she is a serious contender in the political ring is beyond me………..AND she married her own brother!!!!!! Whacko is as whacko does.
Churchill said it best. I actually want to visit New York City between now and the general election so I can visit the last attractions I want to before Mamdani destroys the city.
not all night visions are dreams, particularly those coming out of her obviously sick mind.