Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticizes the Democrats for lack of competence and willingness to progress

Democrat Joe Biden won the race for the White House, but there is far from unity in his party. Left Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Biden’s team of ignoring the party’s young progressives agenda. This is a contempt for those who led Biden to victory, said the “AOC” called MP in an interview with the “New York Times”.

The 31-year-old politician is one of the emerging stars of the Democrats. In 2019, the New Yorker with Puerto Rican roots moved to the House of Representatives as the youngest MP. He defended his seat in the current elections. Your campaign was the second most expensive single campaign in the United States. Ocasio-Cortez raised $ 17.3 million, their Republican challenger John Cummings raised just $ 9.6 million.

The AOC is now accusing Biden of populating his transition team with members of the party’s establishment, the party left out. According to Ocasio-Cortez, it was mainly the party’s “young migrant activists” who “decided the elections in Nevada and Arizona”. This is a wrong signal for the voters of these young progressives: it shows that their vote doesn’t count in the end.

“Extreme hostility towards everything that smells only of progress”

The Democrat belongs to the left wing of the party. One of their central demands is universal health insurance for all Americans. It has been the subject of regular harsh attacks from President Donald Trump and other Republicans over the past year.

But relations within the Democratic Party are affecting her too, she said in an interview with the New York Times. Stress, fighting and, above all, internal defamation and denunciation would have worn them out. He doesn’t know how long he wants to stay in politics, “it’s because of the lack of party support”.

He accuses many of his colleagues of incompetence, because the Democrats did not use the internet enough during the election campaign. The politician doubts the Democrats can renew the United States in the next four years. “On the outside you win,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “but on the inside there is extreme hostility towards anything that smacks of progress.”