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.
I think platner goes far beyond the bar just being low.
I personally haven’t verified it, but colleagues out in Maine have insisted that Smith-Rodriguez is basically the exact same thing as platner on paper (military veteran, demsoc platform, many of the same positions on issues) but with actual policy details and plans rather than just vibes and speeches. And… she was basically a laughing stock. Maybe it is that she didn’t have a big ol’ nazi skull on her chest or hadn’t served with Blackwater. Maybe it is that she is a woman. Maybe it is that whatever orgs are backing this complete nobody didn’t like her. But she flopped and has since endorsed the “kinda shitty” mayor (?), mostly on the grounds that she can’t support someone who has consistently hand-waived sexual assault as she is a victim of it from her time in the military.
But that is what fucking terrifies me. Because this isn’t a case of “Look… nobody is perfect but class politics above all” because… there was literally an option with the same politics. And Sanders I just assume is on whatever bullshit he was when he was backing fetterman. Homie has a LONG history of bad decisions on that front. But we also have basically all of breadtube and the left leaning podcast sphere supporting this nazi mercenary. And a LOT of establishment Democrats are on his side too (although they seem a lot faster to try to distance themselves from baby skorzeny…)
This is Democrats ACTIVELY backing someone who… best case scenario might be another fetterman. And… I am seeing a LOT of parallels to trump 2016.
At best? It is yet another case of the DNC gladly throwing women and people of color under the bus with the expectation that we’ll keep voting Blue because we have no choice (see also: all the attempts to glom liz fucking cheney onto Kamala). But this is really feeling like they listened to all of us who explained that we need another 2004 DNC Keynote moment to build up new candidates… and decided they wanted their own trump instead.