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In reply to the discussion: Ocasio-Cortez backs campaign to primary fellow Democrats [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)by an accident of history combined with genuine public speaking talent and belief in herself, she does have a big start to a political career if she doesn't mess it up. Nationally known at 29 and arriving in congress as a freshman with a power bloc.
So far, though, she's looking ominously like a zealot who can spend an entire life never accepting what Elizabeth Warren probably would have understood and accepted at 10. If her electoral career fizzles, though, we could still be seeing her for decades as a talking head around elections, leading up her own dissident political action group, throwing elections to one party or another, etc.
If she has any sense, she'll have noted that Sanders's success is not the usual story. And she may not want to do what he's had to to remain in office all this time: criticize and disagree, vote with, resume criticizing and disagreeing. For 30 years? At some point she also needs to consider now historians may describe his role in this era's dangerous battle between our continuation of liberal democracy and rising right-wing authoritarianism and nationalism. I see no sign that she has yet.