DSA blueprint for 2028: Elect AOC president and reportedly replace Schumer with radical leftist
Ultra-left Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé would reportedly challenge NY Sen.Chuck Schumer in 2028 while “Squad” Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez runs for the White House — if the Democratic Socialists of America get their way.Ossé visited Buffalo and Kingston this week, and the silver-spoon socialist sounded very much like a candidate seeking higher office.“I think the era of wait-your-turn politics is over,” he told a packed crowd at Kingston’s Unicorn Bar Tuesday at a “Take Our Power Back” Mid-Hudson Valley DSA event.“The time for us, the socialists, is right now,” he said, sitting on a bar stool on stage at the queer performance venue, Hell Gate reported.
In May he notoriously said, “Woke 1 was crazyyyy.” It was an attempt to defend his 2021 remarks that “a cis white man should not be the next speaker of the council.” Ocasio-Cortez repeated Ossé’s “woke 1 was crazy” comment last month before announcing on national television she was freezing her eggs.“During lockdown, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today,” she said in an attempt to blame it all on pandemic stir-craze.The remarks were seen by many as a signal that the two far-left pols are trying to water down their radical images in an effort to attract more moderate Dems.In Kingston, Ossé, 28, pushed for government-run electricity, and worked the room and posed for photos during a private happy hour before the talk, Hell Gate reported.
The outlet reported that several DSA sources confirmed ongoing talks within the party to run Ossé for Schumer’s seat.Hudson Valley State Assemblywoman Sarahana Shrestha, a member of the Mid-Hudson chapter of the DSA who also spoke at the Tuesday event, personally called out Senate Minority Leader Schumer — whose term is up in 2028 and is facing retirement rumors — for his ties to the tech industry.“We really need socialists leading the fight against big tech because I don’t trust moderate Democrats to do i...