Fair enough: American Democrats are looking for a new leader. Thirty-five-year-old Ocasio-Cortez can confidently lead them to another defeat.
While the world has to face one controversy of President Donald Trump after another, the traditional opposition in the USA is somewhat helpless and is looking for someone who could stand up to Trump's policy in the next presidential elections. The youngest representative in the Congress, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, is coming to the fore among American Democrats. However, the 21st century has not arrived in every corner of the USA yet and those who do not want to admit it will repeat the mistakes of the past.
When we look back at several decades of U.S. presidential elections, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have been successful among Democrats. At about the same time, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris did not succeed. The major American parties are not entirely uniform groups. The primary dividing line among Democrats runs along the line of centrists and more left-leaning progressives.
Although every presidential candidate has to appear suitable for everyone, the aforementioned trio of successful candidates primarily benefited from the support of centrists, whereas the trio of unsuccessful candidates slightly more capitalized on the support of the progressive part (of course, Clinton was not the ideal candidate of this wing, just as it cannot be said that Obama did not have confidence among them).
The youngest American congresswoman is an influx of too much young blood
The last electoral embarrassment, it seems, did not bring much learning. Kamala Harris may not have lost by a significant margin, but the defeat itself from Trump, who has been defeated once before, is not an ideal report card. The second attempt to get a woman for the first time into the best office in the White House has failed again.
Just like in the case of Clinton. The incumbent president, on the other hand, was defeated by the aging, but well-known Joe Biden. The role of the American president is exceptional not only from the perspective of the USA itself, but also in a global context, and finding a suitable candidate depends not only on exceptional personality prerequisites, but also in the intra-party struggle.
That is now starting at full throttle. It presents itself to bring new blood to American politics. Such candidate is primarily the youngest elected member of Congress Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. She got into the council at just twenty-eight years old. She started her career in Bernie Sanders' election team, who wanted to win the democratic nomination for presidential elections at the expense of Clinton, which he failed to achieve.
Ocasio Cortéz then ran in independent elections and succeeded on her own. However, she has never left her mentor and is touring the country with him on a kind of tour where they present left-wing topics. Sanders is, in fact, the most left-wing person in American politics. He advocates for comprehensive health insurance, for example.
What is taken for granted in the Czech Republic, for example, free health care, makes Sanders an excessive radical even for seemingly left-wing Democrats. We can remind that Sanders is a year older than former President Biden, so Ocasio Cortéz, who is the age of his granddaughter, could take up his banner.
The 21st century has not yet arrived everywhere
From an overseas perspective, everything could seem like a guaranteed recipe for success. A young politician, promising a lot of things for free, as is common in Europe. She is already reaping success with the more left-wing faction of the democrats, which is currently enjoying a slight supremacy over the centrists.
It wouldn't matter much that all Americans choose the president and in electoral math a fraction of states decide, where there isn't a significant Republican or Democratic minority. On the upper floor, there lingers a taste from the past, that these voters do not want the first female president. It's not spoken out loud, but from a general perspective, this problem is still pressing even in the third decade of the 21st century.
Donald Trump ran three times, twice defeated a female candidate, and once lost to a typical aging representative of the American political establishment. Whether Vice President Vence or someone else takes on the role of Trump's successor in the next election, a young candidate with Puerto Rican roots will have a hard time succeeding where the bread is broken. Even though she can teach her older colleagues how to do political marketing on social networks.
Sources: author's text, commentary, seznamzpravy.cz, nbc.com
