President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in 2028 not all that crazy
Even though Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is typically viewed as a polarizing figure within the Democrat Party, Donald Trump’s unpopularity has made her popular enough to be considered for higher office, perhaps even the office of President of the United States.
According to a recent poll, the New York Democrat has a more popular image than Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris (via Newsweek.com):
New polling released by AtlasIntel—which has been described by election analyst Nate Silver as “top-rated,” and was described as the most accurate pollster of the 2024 and 2020 elections—showed Ocasio-Cortez ranked third among politicians included in the survey, in terms of Americans who had a positive view of her. The congresswoman was also one of just three political leaders with an overall net positive image.
Ocasio-Cortez was ahead of Trump and Harris, as well as Vice President JD Vance and former President Joe Biden. Trump was viewed positively by 44 percent, Vance by 42 percent, Harris by 42 percent and Biden by 37 percent. Respectively the politicians were viewed negatively by 55 percent, 56 percent, 52 percent and 55 percent.
The poll included 3,469 respondents and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level. It was carried out from May 21 through May 27.
Speculation has swirled in recent months about Ocasio-Cortez’s political future, especially as she has rallied with Sanders across the country. Many have urged her to consider challenging Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, in the 2028 primary, while others see her as a strong Democratic presidential contender. (Emphasis mine)
Trumpist and Trumpist Republicans who take this information lightly are ignoring history at their own peril.
Other than the coattail elections of 2016 and 2024, Democrats were able to leverage Trump’s sub-standard performance into a Blue Tsunami in 2018 midterms and a clean sweep of Congress and the presidency in 2020.
For example, two years of ineptitude (2016-2018) proved that the far-left agenda had become property of Trump and the Republican Party. In one primary race after another, radical socialists were victorious in 2018 at the state and local levels and eventually went on to victory in the November election against the GOP’s “more electable” moderate candidates. Democrats handed Republicans the worst midterm defeat since Watergate, took over the House of Representatives, and made Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House.
Unfortunately, the elections of Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell as leaders of the party all but guaranteed that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi would have no problem advancing the Democratic Socialist agenda.
In the midst of this momentum, Democrats began openly promoting the idea of destroying free-market capitalism and replacing it with things like guaranteed lifetime government jobs and creating government oversight boards to regulate the pay structure of private companies, particularly CEO compensation. Throughout the 2018 campaign season, it became crystal clear that Democrats were embracing Marxist-style socialism as key component to their plan to transform the country into a new United Socialist States of America.
This is when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a card-carrying member of “the largest socialist organization” in the U.S. (Democratic Socialists of America) — used the Democrat Party’s embrace of socialism to grow her influence within the party. As a disciple of Marxist-inspired socialism — it was the platform for her successful campaign — the New York representative began her work reshaping Democrat Party into her radical image.
Following the 2018 midterms, AOC formed an alliance with Justice Democrats, a leftist organization dedicated to taking out incumbent Democrats in 2020 who failed to advance socialism in areas like Medicare for All, free college, the Green New Deal, justice reform, and immigrant rights.
While ridiculed at the time for her socialist ideals by ignorant Republicans and Democrats who didn’t like the competition, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started to look like who could seize socialism’s momentum to become the leader of a new generation of voters who were already warming up to the idea of socialism in 2019. After initially facing backlash at the time for proposing a 70 percent tax rate on the wealthy to pay for her Green New Deal, Ocasio-Cortez’s “fair share” proposal gained the support of a significant majority of voters of every political stripe.
The Green New Deal is a radical “green energy” plan that reaches beyond environmentalism to advance much of the non-environmental agenda of the Far-Left in areas like “social, economic, racial, regional, and gender-based justice,” and gives the federal government control of the U.S. economy to make it happen. It also promises to “virtually eliminate poverty in the United States” and “make prosperity, wealth, and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation.”
Targeting the rich for the benefit of the poor isn’t a passing fancy for AOC. For example, when the New York representative attended an event honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2019, she stated that billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to exist in a world where Americans live in abject poverty; calling the situation “immoral.”
Despite their promise to be a firewall against socialism in 2020, the Republican Party adopted the far-left’s socialist ideology by creating a rebranded conservative agenda known as Nationalism. This rebranded conservatism has become the identity of the Republican Party and will remain so for the next four years under Trump 2.0.
In the months leading up to the 2022 midterms, AOC joined Influencers with Andy Serwer where she shared her thoughts on why capitalism was no longer a “redeemable” system in America and why it should be replaced with Marxism to provide “a more just economy.”
“So, to me, capitalism at its core, what we’re talking about when we talk about that, is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental, and social cost. That is what we’re really discussing.
“[Capitalists] can control our labor. They can control massive markets that they dictate and can capture governments. And they can essentially have power over the many. And to me that is not a redeemable system for us to be able to participate in for the prosperity and peace for the vast majority of people.” (Emphasis mine)
Anti-capitalism/pro-socialism ideology growing in acceptance with an increasing number of Americans, and AOC is growing in popularity as a result. Even though she was too young at the time (in 2019 she was 29 years old), a poll of Democrats and left-leaning voters conducted at the time showed that 74 percent of respondents wanted her to run when eligible at age 35 (her current age).
For the Trumpists ready to dismiss the idea, let me share this warning from one of the Trumpiest of Trumpists, Monica Crowley, a former FOX News personality who served in the Treasury Department during the first Trump administration:
“Just a word of warning to the Republicans, to my party: Do not underestimate AOC. She’s young, she’s vibrant, she’s attractive.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) may be viewed as a polarizing figure within the Democrat and Republican Parties, but Donald Trump’s unpopularity and track record of failure has made her popular enough to be considered a serious candidate for the office of President of the United States in 2028 . . . assuming we have an election, of course.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative and the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.
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