“Go challenge the establishment in the primary” is the centrist equivalent of saying “go make your own comics/games.” If you actually do it and are successful, they get very bewildered and irate.
In a shocking upset, New York Rep. Joe Crowley, who is the fourth-highest ranking Democrat in the House and had been considered a possible future speaker, has lost his primary to challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A community activist, Ocasio-Cortez is a shoo-in to represent this heavily Democratic and Latino district that spans Queens and the Bronx.
As an avowed democratic socialist, Ocasio-Cortez ran a challenge from the left against Crowley, who has been in office for two decades and is chairman of the Queens Democratic party. Crowley had access to immense resources, and in the final months of the campaign, he outspent Ocasio-Cortez $1.1 million to just $127,000.
The fact that Democrats would rather complain about how ridiculous and ungrateful leftists are for legitimately running in an election and beating them, as if the Democratic Party has some inherent right to being in power that just shouldn’t be challenged by third parties, really says a lot about the center liberal perspective of “democracy” and also their complete inability to recognize their own failures, if you can be beaten in the United States of “Socialism is the Devil” America by a person openly calling themself a socialist
The US is about to get our own Mhairi Black and I could not be more excited about that!
AP’s officially called it for Ocasio-Cortez.
I may still have some serious issues with the DSA, and the people they’ve endorsed. But… damn does it feel good seeing some big-time establishment Democrat like Joe Crowley go down in flames.
It’s been a horrible day, especially with SCOTUS and other things. I’ll take silver linings when I can get ‘em.
“Are
all of the apartments smoking weed?” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asks on a
fourth-floor hallway of Elmback Houses in Queens, where indeed the
smell of marijuana does seem to waft from one long end of the corridor
to the other.
Ocasio-Cortez
has come to this block of red-brick apartment complexes in the Elmhurst
section of Queens on a quixotic mission: She is running to dethrone
Congressman Joe Crowley, who has represented the district for two
decades, rising to the fourth spot in the House Democratic leadership,
all while serving as the head of the Queens County Democratic Party.
And
so Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Bronx-raised former Bernie Sanders
organizer, is searching for votes wherever she can find them, hoping to
bring millennials and first-time voters out to the polls tomorrow in a
race that if she were to win, would upend the entrenched New York
political establishment, never mind the country’s. At nearly every door —
she avoids the dope-stenched ones — voters seem surprised to see
Ocasio-Cortez, and quite pleased that she has made the trek.
“We
got you, we got you. I tell everyone here to vote for you,” one elderly
woman says, taking a stack of palm cards from Ocasio-Cortez’s hand.
“People ask me who to vote for, I say ‘Vote Alexandria,’” says another.
“I
see you in the street all the time,” says a third who came to the door
on this bright Friday afternoon in nothing but his T-shirt and
underwear.
This
recognition stems in part from the fact that the Elmback Houses are
down the street from the Ocasio-Cortez campaign headquarters, which is
bedecked out front with campaign posters featuring her face looking off
into the distance, and that a Ocasio-Cortez truck has been circling the
neighborhood all week blaring “Despacito.”
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