TThe election was decided more than four months ago and the next one is away for years, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in full campaign mode when she was on stage in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon.
“Are you ready to fight? Are you ready to win? ‘ She screamed for a capacity of more than 3,000 people. “We’ll take back our country.”
AOC has traveled across the country to join her political mentor Bernie Sanders on a ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour that will hit several states this week.
They will go to Nevada, Arizona and Colorado over the next few days, where they will hold rallies and ‘hold village meetings with working people’, Sanders announced this week.
“We are here together because an extreme concentration of power and corruption takes over this country like never before,” the New York Congress Woman told the crowd before being directed to Elon Musk and his attempts to cut the government’s spending.
Sanders moved thousands of to his rallies on this tour, which took him from Kenosha, Wisconsin, to the suburban Detroit and to Nebraska. When he hit the road and talked to voters while the Democrats in Washington were looking for Siels, he adopted the leadership of the anti-Trump resistance, as it is the second time.
Now, he has a partner.
It is not uncommon for the progressive pair of events to hold together, but comes in a time of a deep crisis for the Democratic Party, when his leadership faces an increasing anger over the inability to oppose Donald Trump’s agenda, and when a new direction becomes more difficult to ignore, their message feels that it is being shown.
It comes just a week after the apparent party’s apparent leader, 74-year-old Chuck Schumer, helped Republicans give a spending bill that opposed almost all Democrats, which enabled the cutting of Trump’s power to control the government’s financing.
Ocasio-Cortez came out as one of Schumer’s strongest critics and calls his move “a huge mistake”.
Democratic voters – from moderates to young voters to progressive people – were already frustrated about an apparent lack of action in response to Trump’s fierce first months in office. Schumer’s decision contributes to the outrage.
Democratic lawmakers faced evil voters in the city halls across the country.
In Las Vegas on Thursday, a man in the crowd had the mood that was not summarized for a long time in Aoc’s speech when he screamed: “Primary Chuck!”
The devastating election loss and the party’s failure to find its foot has since sent it in a turn that he has struggled to control. The approval rating hit a low in a national times this week Nbc news pollWith just over a quarter of registered voters (27 percent) saying they have positive views of the party.
Meanwhile, the same poll found that the democratic voters’ appetite for compromise disappears. In 2017, 59 percent of Democrats said they wanted Congress Democrats to work with Trump to get consensus on legislation, with 33 percent saying they should abide by their positions, even if it meant things to stop in Washington.
That sentiment is now reversed. About 65 percent of Democrats say they want Democrats to keep their positions in Congress, and only 32 percent want them to compromise with Trump, according to NBC.
In other words, Democrats are eager for someone to take the fight to Trump.
This could explain another poll of Democrats and democratically-learning independents that found that Ocasio-Cortez carefully leads to the question of which political leader “best reflects the core values of the Democratic Party.”
Ten percent said Ocasio-Cortez, 9 percent said former vice president Kamala Harris, Eight percent said Sanders.
Here is a parallel to another political moment – if not in policy, then in zeal. The Republican Tea Party movement that came to life after the election of Barack Obama was fueled by anger from the party’s base. It was grassroots and decentralized.
It was known for its utmost methods to oppose Obama’s policy – a lesson that many Democrats want to draw from today – and it created a blueprint for how the Republican anger could utilize between its base to election success. It produced young armys like Jim Jordan, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who are now occupying the highest runs of the IDP.
Years later, that energy would shift In the Maga movementand to the White House.
It is a curiosity from the Democratic Party that it is only leaders who are too young or too old to be president. Eighty-three-year-old Sanders, who started this tour on his own before Ocasio-Cortez joined him, may have missed his lap, but he now looks more relevant than he has done in years.
Ocasio-Cortez, 35, will be too young to run in 2028, but she is one of the most skilled in her party to articulate the anger that many of them feel about Trump’s presidency
“We need a Democratic party that fights harder for us,” she said during the rally as the crowd looked back at her.
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