QUESTION ASKED: How Will AOC Survive a Presidential Campaign?

It was only a month ago that Axios was telling us that while the AOC is a ubiquitous social media presence, she doesn’t like doing sit-down interviews, and when she does, “it’s usually with an ideologically sympathetic outlet or reporter.”

We saw this with Joe Biden, and we saw this with Kamala Harris. We are beset by overambitious, under-studied politicians who are absolutely convinced they’re ready to sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and order U.S. troops into combat when needed, but not ready to sit down for an hour with a major cable news host who’s going to ask them tougher-than-usual questions. If you want to be president of the United States, then you need to be able to sit down with someone who’s going to say some variation of, “your policies, ideas, and agenda stink, and you should not be trusted with power” and you need to be able to respond, “no, my policies, ideas, and agenda are the right answers, and here’s why” in a persuasive matter. This is Politics 101.

If you need to be wrapped in bubble wrap to get through a national tour, you are not going to get through the challenges of a presidential campaign.

Much like Kamala during her stillborn 2020 presidential bid, AOC’s 2019 Green Nude Eel obsessions created a treasure-trove of insane rhetoric. With the left having recently backed off on their apocalyptic eco rhetoric, her manic pixie “New Socialist ‘It Girl’” phase will be studied endlessly by operatives on the left during the primaries and on the right, if she’s the Dem’s nominee.