Ocasio-Cortez Faces Uncertain Political Future
Source: The Hill
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is facing an uncertain future after a pivotal setback this week, when she lost her race to lead Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
The 74-year-old Rep. Gerry Connollys (D-Va.) victory sparked new anger in liberals pushing for a generational change in leadership, and some are wondering how Ocasio-Cortez will play her cards next.
The squad members House defeat shows the delicate nature of post-November politics. Her centrist colleagues promotion of Connolly sent a clear message that Democrats want to suppress left-wing ideology as they look to rebrand their image, challenging Ocasio-Cortezs place in the party, which has lost considerable power in Washington.
Some of the younger members need to be willing to potentially take risk for their careers in Congress, in the political establishment, by calling out Democratic process as harmful to the power-building that they say that they desire, said Corryn Freeman, the executive director of Future Coalition, an organization that mobilizes young progressives. I think she needs to say that out loud.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5051451-ocasio-cortez-house-defeat-future/
About two weeks ago, this was Pelosi (who actively worked the phones to torpedo AOC's bid): "Im supporting the newer members who are running for office. This is with all the respect in the world for the chairmen who had been there and the contribution that they had made over time. But now others have come forward, and I respect the fact that theyre ready to take charge of their committees, and I support that.
Not sure how rallying around a 74-year-old recently diagnosed with esophagus cancer lines up with Pelosi's rhetoric about supporting a generational shift on committee appointments in the post-Biden era.
Meanwhile, Maxine Waters, 86, won another two years as top Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, while Gregory Meeks, 71, will stay on as top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Bennie Thompson, 76, will remain ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, and Nydia Velazquez, 71, will keep her job as top Democrat on the Small Business Committee.
GreenWave
(9,440 posts)DrFunkenstein
(8,760 posts)I figured it for a hit piece, but it was more nuanced than I expected.
Think. Again.
(19,027 posts)There's nothing "uncertain" about her career. Missing a step forward doesn't equal any steps back.
Jilly_in_VA
(11,102 posts)She'll be around when Connolly is long gone.
DURHAM D
(32,852 posts)RandySF
(71,149 posts)Sneederbunk
(15,389 posts)bucolic_frolic
(47,565 posts)This is the time to hunker down, pick our spots, with the experience we have. I think this is a non-issue at present. Maybe in 2026 it will be more relevant.
displacedvermoter
(3,221 posts)elements that supposedly would have saved us. Bullshit, nuanced or not.
onecaliberal
(36,305 posts)Scrivener7
(53,179 posts)"want to suppress left wing ideology." AOC's political future is not uncertain. It's pretty secure. I don't know anyone asking how AOC "will play her cards next." She'll represent her district as she always has.
Same old "Democrats in disarraaaayyyy" message. Nonsense as usual.
dweller
(25,240 posts)Meanwhile Pelosi , 84 , just had a hip replacement . Love her , but wont be surprised if she retires soon .
✌🏻
JohnSJ
(96,808 posts)a bullshit hit piece when I read it.
Her future isnt uncertain.
msongs
(70,275 posts)yaesu
(8,354 posts)sheshe2
(88,140 posts)I don't know if I am watching a soap opera or reading a script for a romance novel. It has everything you need for a plot, the heroine and the villains, will she ever survive!
What a load of horseshit.
Skittles
(160,282 posts)seriously
PSPS
(14,194 posts)The party has been drifting to the right margin for last 40 years while republicans have fallen off the right edge entirely.
P.S. - In the future, these opinion pieces should be in Editorials and not LBN.
Lunabell
(7,061 posts)Change or die in a stagnant pond of past mistakes.
Prairie Gates
(3,568 posts)Ridiculous.
ReRe
(10,902 posts)That's what I want to see above the fold in the Washington Post and/or the NYTs.
I stopped trusting anything printed in that "newspaper" a lonnnnnnnnng time ago.
I cringe when I see that they are the source of posts on DU.
AOC's going to be just fine.
And lastly, ageism goes both ways.
Jack Valentino
(1,510 posts)and SHOULD be.
She will "stay around" to continue to be
a "thorn in the side" to old Democrats like me
(although I am not quite that old, but headed that way)
who ought to step aside and retire....
(and follow President Biden's example---
whom SOME of them helped to push out...)
Karma13612
(4,704 posts)When I saw it was from TheHill, I immediately surmised its handwringing bull. They play both sides expertly.
Shes in a safe district and isnt going anywhere but up.
erodriguez
(748 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,876 posts)Gerry is a leftist nut and I love him for it. AOC is in her 3rd term, how many Chairs are in their 3rd term.
betsuni
(27,307 posts)True Dough
(20,820 posts)Quit politics? Join the Republicans? C'mon!
Yesterday, she joined striking Amazon Teamsters in solidarity at the picket line in Queens. I think it's a safe bet she's going to keep up the good fight!
Mike 03
(17,360 posts)I agree with most of the other replies--this piece seems gratuitous and uncalled for, unless AOC herself is rethinking her career. Any bright, young politician does need to think about what has just happened and whether or not it makes sense to keep hitting her head against the brick wall of what can become an intractable, calcified autocracy. Dictatorships have a way of wearing down the best of opponents. AOC has most of her life ahead of her (hopefully). We each get one life, and it goes by fast. But unless AOC herself has said anything to the contrary, it's not up to the Hill to decide what her future looks like.
Ford_Prefect
(8,216 posts)iemanja
(54,889 posts)Not targeting the left, or they would have removed Waters.