No fear, no quit in that one.

A lot of us recognize AOC gives voice to our values.

None of her "ideas" are tolerable to the majority of the country, like the Green New Deal. And she was the big proponent of saying "LatinX" which hurts us amongst the broader Hispanic population. She speaks well and articulates her views well, but that doesn't mea she should be the leader of the entire Democratic Party.

Do you have a better plan or do you not believe in climate change? If you have a better set of "ideas" then please let us know. Since AOC appears to base her "ideas" on science and compassion, if your ideas on how to keep this planet livable are good, and based on science then I suspect she would like to hear them as well.

As far as the term "LatinX" goes, it is part of an academic approach to trying to deal with the inherent gender bias built into the Spanish language. I will agree that there is a large faction that don't like the term "LatinX." It is unpopular, kind of like "Antifa" is unpopular, "Woke" is unpopular, and a compassionate Jesus who supports the poor is unpopular. I don't particularly love the term, "LatinX," but I respect the reasoning behind it.

Gender pronouns are interesting things these days, and there are people who get angry about them. I am not one of those people, but I am one of those who hopes that AOC's "ideas" are a strong part of our future.

The people that complain about "latinx" the most were white centrists.

In her district she and her ideas may be very popular but nationwide they are far less so. She has come a long way and had matured. She speaks well and is one of the few going after the Nazis. However I agree elevating her to party leader will hurt us even more.

She does not hold any recognized leadership position within the Democratic Party. She is a rank and file representative.

Pritzker is a leader. So is Whitmer. So is Newsom. Even though a lot of people here are showing their disdain of Schumer, he is a leader.

Up until a month ago, I'd have been open-throated in my support of Gavin Newsom. He's my governor and his leadership through COVID (notwithstanding the stupid French Laundry B.S.) was a source of great comfort to me, watching my closest friend suffer the likes of Doug Ducey.

This recent, BIZARRE turn he's taken, platforming the proponents of literal hate speech, has completely lost me. Michael Savage was almost single-handedly responsible for brainwashing my beloved father, a JFK Democrat, into someone whose political views towards the end of his life (he passed in 2005) I barely recognized. Hadn't heard his name in years until Gavin Newsom thought it would be a good idea to feature him on his podcast a couple weeks ago.

Just like I used to pay for HBO solely to watch Bill Maher but I now consider him totally unwatchable, Gavin has now become absolutely repellent to me because of the scum he's willing to platform. He's killed his 2028 chances, if he even ever had any due to the demonization of anything associated with my great home state of California (they hate us for our freedoms!).

Leadership doesn't only come from official titles. I think we are unfortunately now seeing that play out with Schumer.

Also for only being (your words) 'a rank and file representative', which implies limited power and/or not much significance, she sure does engender myriad screeds against her amongst certain types within our Party's big tent, both here and outside of DU's cyber environs.

AOC is a leader among people. But not of corporations.

"leader" or not, at least she has demonstrated she has more...moxie...(and here u thought I was going to use the b word)... than many who are too afraid to stand up or speak out.

And by many, I'm not referring to any person(s) or party in particular.

From day one

We need fighters.

Not milquetoast surrender monkeys.

Unlike Shumer and his buddies she is willing to fight and do so in an articulate way. Whatever her future is she should be applauded for speaking out in these trying times when few are willing or able to do so.

I like her.

She and Bernie Sanders are so great!