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The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-president

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I'm super curious to see what the GOP does in this next election. Trump isn't particularly likeable but MAGA is a cult. If someone else with a Trump-style of brash, incendiary speech and irreverence for political sacred cows (think someone like Nick Fuentes or James Fishback, though perhaps not those discrete individuals) pops up, I can't imagine he or should would be successful without Trump's endorsement. If Trump dies before the next election--as well he might, he is old after all--the whole party will be in disarray. The base is unlikely to follow an endorsement from, say, Donald Trump Jr. or Lara Trump in the same way that they would from Donald Trump himself, and I think that the GOP's deep field will probably eat each other alive politically.

I'm not a Democrat so I'm not as knowledgeable about what they're up to, but I'd imagine that it'll be a battle between progressive activists and politics vs. average liberal voters and the Democrat establishment over whether or not we see a more extreme anti-Capitalist type as the nominee, or a moderate candidate at the helm.

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