Over the past decade, Senator Bernie Sanders is running from Vermont to the presidency, planning to run for the presidency or pay former President Joseph R. Biden Junior to adopt more progressive policies.
But now, as Democrats find their legal institutions and money raising Under attack From the Trump administration, Their voters, who are angry at their leadership of Congress And the popularity of their party in Low generationsProgressive people also stare at the possibility of a post -Berni future.
A movement politician with a large and consecrated base of supporters, Mr. Sanders, an 83 -year -old He does not intend to run for the presidency again. The question now is who will lead the network that has been built from scratch to the upcoming presidential elections and beyond.
Interviews with nearly 20 progressive Democrats on the future of the left wing revealed a faction that sees the ideas that Mr. Sanders defended – which reduces the strength of billionaires, which increases the minimum wage, with a more focus on the plight of workers – as the essence of the next generation of the main democratic policy.
Although there is a little agreement on who will appear to direct progressors to the post -solid era, almost everyone who was interviewed said that there was a clear leader of the job: Alexandria actress Okasio Cortez from New York.
This only happened is that Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Okasio Cortez spent three days last week in the “Fighting” tour of Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. In Denver, they drew 34,000 people, what Sanders said the assistants was the largest crowd of his career. None of them referred to the nature of the flame nominated for its journey, and in an interview, Mr. Sanders refused to answer questions about whether Mrs. Okasio Cortez, 35, inherited a cloak. But the sub -text of their trips seems clear.
It is the next – if you want it.
“Alexandria is doing an extraordinary job at home,” said Mr. Sanders. ))
Three OCASIO-Cortez options
Ms. OCASIO-Cortez, who refused to request the interview, has publicly less than her political plans. Many people who said that the deportees spoke with her that she was far from making any decisions.
But the fourth -term Congress has three clear options.
It can focus on the House of Representatives, as it became a beloved and respected member of the Democratic Assembly, and an attempt to become the chair of a committee if Democrats won a majority in the mid -term elections next year.
She could run for the seat occupied by Senator Chuck Schumer from New York, the leader of the minority. Or it can search for the presidency in 2028.
(Ms. Okasio Cortez also said completely out of politics, as the people who spoke to her said. This seems less likely, given her long enemy on Thursday to a crowd in North Las Vegas, Neve.
Ha Clear With Mr. Shomer after he heated the Republican spending bill this month, he heated the distinguished conversation about whether he had nominated his seat in 2028, whether he was looking for a sixth state or not.
A person worked with Mrs. Okasio Cortez in the campaigns, who insisted on not revealing his identity to discuss special awareness, and narrated that he was drowned in calls from Democrats-and not only those who were on the left-after Mr. Shomer’s vote, and asked her about the future of the Congress member and encourage her to consider higher positions.
“She does not look to jumping to the next thing, the next thing or the next thing, just for a simple reason to jump to this thing,” said former actor Jamal Buman from New York, a political ally and friend of Mrs. Okasio Cortez. “When everyone says,” accelerate “, this is actually the slowdown.”
He added: “You have to take a breath. This race for the US Senate is three years away. Let’s be deprived a little.”
Mrs. Okasio Cortez held extensive talks with the House of Representatives, such as actor Jimmy Raskin from Maryland, who said that he talked with his own deliberations about the candidacy for the Senate. Before last year’s elections, Mr. Raskin decided to stay at home, Senate running He would have been a heavy favorite.
Mr. Raskin said that the Senate provides major loudspeakers to politicians, but he believes they can achieve more political goals in the House of Representatives, a possibility that may appeal to Mrs. Okasio Cortez-who does not need greater loudspeakers.
Mr. Raskin said: “We are in a moment of crisis, and the crisis is always a moment when a new leadership is watching to speak to the ethical and political necessities at that time,” said Mr. Raskin. “This crisis may be the end of the professions of some political people, and it may be the beginning of the professions of some political people.”
2028 shakes on the left
The issue of who can be supposed to be the Sanders Mantle – at least partially – is sure to reach his head in the upcoming presidential elections.
In some respects, the vibration is already clear.
“I don’t think there will be, in my view, standard, standard or three standard holders of the standard movement of progress,” said actor Roy Khanna, a Democrat in California, who had conversations to play his 2028 presidential campaign for his 2028. “We will see the beginning of a new progressive era as we will see successive progressive candidates.”
Of course, there are deep gaps in the party around the extent to which the left Democrats should go.
But some also argue that tensions in the Democratic Party today no longer focus on the types of ideological clashes that were characterized One health care one defender.
At least at the present time, these Democrats say The discussions relate to how and the place to draw the line Against President Trump and Eileon Musk, the richest man in the world.
Many major Democrats, including Senator Chris Murphy From the state of Connecticut, state governor Tim Walz from Minnesota and Governor JB Pritzker from Illinois, a billionaire, drew attention from progressive activists because of their strong reaction to the Trump administration.
“The biggest division between Democrats is among those who want to stand and fight and those who want to play death,” said actor Greg Kassar, a democratic in Texas and the Progressive Board of Directors. “We need more leaders from the Democratic Party’s backup wing.”
Daniel Bricker, non -retrospective leader Empire State, who called on Mr. Shomer to step down as a minority leader, said that she saw Mrs. Okasio Cortez “the future of the party” with any number of promising tracks.
But she asked about the country’s readiness to elect a woman in 2028.
She said, “I am unfortunately that he might be a very safe white man,” she said. “I feel terrible. I say that. This wound is still very painful.”
How anger pushes democratic politics
When Mr. Trump was the first time, the liberal energy was firmly with Mr. Sanders.
By the time when the Democratic Presidential race began in 2020, many competitors He rushed to embrace the goals of Mr. Sanders On Heath Care and other issues – although most of the party’s successful candidates in the 2018 renewal elections adopted more moderate positions. In 2020, the party’s final candidate, Mr. Biden, took a more moderate assistant.
There are now signs that angry ingredients have regained the ability to direct their elected officials. The anger of Mr. Shomer and Democrats in the Senate last month prompted sterile offers of the opposition to the appointments of the Council of Ministers to Mr. Trump. Democrats who host the events of the city hall, which aims to hold the Republicans accountable for Trump’s agenda themselves, have found a liberal reaction that they could not change the country’s path.
Some progressive said that taking the nation in a new direction would require this, which is a continuous effort to prove the popular opposition to the schedule of the business of Mr. Trump and support for a liberal alternative.
“After the death of George Floyd, I saw a huge flow,” said Keith Ellson, the Democratic Prosecutor in Minnesota, who was supported by Mr. Sanders in 2017 to become the head of the National Democratic Committee. “I have seen a lot of people showing data about the accountability of the police, diversity, fairness and inclusion. Then when the movement retracts, they are ready to decline everything.
“So there is a lesson there. The lesson is that you will have to stay in the streets.”
