She’s a woman and America has made it very clear it isn’t ready for a female president
We’ve had 2 so far who made it to the general election:
Hilary Clinton who was the most establishment neoliberal pick imaginable who happened to run against Trump’s growing cult of personality (and some segment of the Republican party was still seething that a black man was president to add fuel to that fire), and she still won the popular vote while Trump made promises to “drain the swamp” and an implied Medicare for All policie at one point (which naturally never came to pass) while Hilary basically promised to be as conservative as possible to maintain the status quo
And we had Kamala, a criminal prosecutor when George Floyd’s death was still fairly fresh in everyone’s memory, and a white populace that was finally waking up to the reality that black and brown Americans face in every police interaction, and Kamala was promising a continuation of Biden policy which included continuing to supply bombs used on civilians in Gaza which many Americans spent the late pandemic seeing videos of dead and dying children pulled from the rubble of. Oh and this was still while Trump’s cult of personality was in full swing.
Now? Trump’s alienated a large portion of his base, his approval is the lowest of any president ever, he’s forced the Republican party to remake itself into his increasingly tarnished image and he just successfully primaried several prominent career Republicans out of their seats, and the cash strapped Americans who voted for some kind of change after Obama ultimately brought mostly more of the same after promising hope? They’re now measurably worse off from Trump’s policies and waking up to it.
This comment may or may not age like fine milk, but I’ll hazard to say if there’s a time for AOC to run for president, this next election is it
We’ve had 2 so far who made it to the general election:
Hilary Clinton who was the most establishment neoliberal pick imaginable who happened to run against Trump’s growing cult of personality (and some segment of the Republican party was still seething that a black man was president to add fuel to that fire), and she still won the popular vote while Trump made promises to “drain the swamp” and an implied Medicare for All policie at one point (which naturally never came to pass) while Hilary basically promised to be as conservative as possible to maintain the status quo
And we had Kamala, a criminal prosecutor when George Floyd’s death was still fairly fresh in everyone’s memory, and a white populace that was finally waking up to the reality that black and brown Americans face in every police interaction, and Kamala was promising a continuation of Biden policy which included continuing to supply bombs used on civilians in Gaza which many Americans spent the late pandemic seeing videos of dead and dying children pulled from the rubble of. Oh and this was still while Trump’s cult of personality was in full swing.
Now? Trump’s alienated a large portion of his base, his approval is the lowest of any president ever, he’s forced the Republican party to remake itself into his increasingly tarnished image and he just successfully primaried several prominent career Republicans out of their seats, and the cash strapped Americans who voted for some kind of change after Obama ultimately brought mostly more of the same after promising hope? They’re now measurably worse off from Trump’s policies and waking up to it.
This comment may or may not age like fine milk, but I’ll hazard to say if there’s a time for AOC to run for president, this next election is it