AOC would be a stellar choice IMO, but 90% of the 1% would probably be against her, and that's about half of all the money in USA.
Social democracies in Scandinavia work DESPITE being undermined by the rich, so the political shrewdness and tenacity that would be required of her is insane. She would need a lot of backup from the population, and the population will need patience.

Because rebuilding the institutions in USA to their former standard is already a lot of work, but rebuilding them to the standard of a proper social democracy is something USA has never seen before, and will be very difficult.
For starters it requires USA to become an actual democracy instead of the dysfunctional democracy that USA many Americans praise as divine and sent from heaven. A multi party system is a must for true democracy, and until USA has at least 8 parties represented in congress, it is not really a functioning democracy at all.

How about they both run in the primaries in a democratic process?

you thought kamala was bad? AOC would TANNKKK the dems

Age Of Cowtron?

It's almost like they're losing on purpose...

The off-the-books cash must flow.

the establishment dem platform makes 100% perfect sense when viewed through the lens of them being controlled opposition.

that won't change unless progressives can get enough seats to control the party's purse strings

Yes we don't need to know this, she flopped so hard against a convicted felon.

She won't get the nomination. At most just maybe make some noise during the convention. Pretty sure the DNC has already decided to force Newsome though.

I want Jasmine Crocket or AOC. Waltz will do though.

I'd prefer Pritzker. He's done great by Illinois and has been standing up for the people against Trump at least as well, if not better than Newsom.

Fuck Whitmer. She’s for the car companies and not for the people. She puts on a show but does nothing of substance.

Run Ocasio-Cortez

This wreaks of the centrism "common sense" that keeps losing us elections. It's built on the assumption that moderates are innately more electable, while history has shown this is anything but the case. It's a kind of magical thinking completely divorced from reality.

The flaw in this thinking is that it assumes that there is a large population of political moderates waiting to be appealed to. This is what's cost Democrats the working class - abandoning workers rights and benefits in the hope of wooing suburban conservatives. And it's failed election after election.

It fails because there aren't actually very many true moderates. If you poll people who are politically unaligned, it's not that they're unaligned because they lie right between the parties. They're unaligned because their politics simply don't match to the existing partisan alignment. Think someone that is pro-gun rights but also supports Medicare for All.

Running performative centrists doesn't do anything to appeal to these voters, it just makes your candidate come off as inauthentic. Some issues just don't have reasonable compromises on them. If one party wants to greatly restrict the civil rights of some minority group, taking the centrist position of only restricting their rights a little bit still makes you look like a monster to anyone with a conscience.

This is why centrists fail. Almost no one actually had beliefs that are in the dead middle of the political spectrum. Appealing to these mythical voters is a strategy that fails again and again.

The governor of Utah is not a decent guy. He has signed plenty of hate legislation.

What you are ignoring is that Newsom has a key characteristic that both Harris and Whitmer lack: a penis. If anything has been made clear to me over the past 10 years, it's that too many Americans view having a penis as a requirement to be President.

You mean the transphobe who destroys homeless people's meager possessions and platforms Nazis? Gross.

We don't need to settle for that sleazeoid. We can do way better.

Newsom is an opportunistic snake and will say whatever he needs to to get elected and then do absolutely whatever he wants and none of it will help you. He is not better than Trump, he IS Trump, for a different audience with different motivations.

Fuck Newsom. AOC is the only valid one I've heard so far.

i voted for Waltz on the hope that maybe Harris would have some unfortunate accident early on and maybe we'd get an actual pro-labour president for once.

now...I just hope Mamdani sweeps NYC's mayor race and maybe that wakes up progressives across the country, showing just how pathetically weak the establishment's control is right now across the board if they can't even keep a key NYC post.

whats wrong with biden? he was a ok guy. hope hes doing well.

Oh she could easily be the candidate. She could get the nomination the same way Biden got it: a coordinated manipulation campaign by the DNC. In 2020, they arranged for all the centrist candidates except Biden to drop out at once, while leaving the progressive vote split between Sanders and Warren. Kamala could easily end up with the nomination.

nah, let her.

it's time they had a proper third party down there anyways, the democrats are fucking useless

Let's remove the dictator first, then we can work on the Party. Harris is a bad choice either way.

So if 2028 rolls around and you're presented with a ballot with the choices "Donald Trump" and "Kamala Harris" on it for president, you'll not vote for Kamala Harris?

No one forgot how bad Trump was, most people just watch fox news