Backtalk DICK MORRIS / GUEST COLUMNIST


AOC Likely to Run for President in 2028


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ere’s what happens when political parties lose important national elections: Millions of their voters leave the losing side and switch to the winning party.


It’s happening already this year after Donald Trump’s


stunning upset of former Vice President Kamala Harris. All one need do is look at the large number of new Republican voter registrations. But this exodus of Democrat voters means that the losing


party now has a smaller universe on which to draw from in its primaries. The independents, moder-


ates, as well as the thinking people leave the losing party. Only the true believers


— the crazies — stay, giving them more power in their pri- maries.


Translation? The lunatics take over the


asylum and start running it. It happened to the Democrats after they lost in 1968 and in 1980, and it’s happening to them again. Who will benefit? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-


Cortez, D-N.Y., often referred to as AOC. As the moderates leave


OCASIO-CORTEZ


the Democrat primary, the extremists will predominate just as they have in the past. In this regard, just look at the record. Following the Democrats’ momentous and tumultuous


Independents and moderates as well as thinking people leſt the Democratic Party aſter their loss. Now lunatics have taken over the asylum and have started running it.


loss in 1968, voters switched in droves to the GOP, leaving the Democratic Party in the hands of extremists. In the Democrat primaries of 1972, the remaining Dem-


ocrats rejected centrist candidates like Edmund Muskie and nominated George McGovern, who went down to a historic defeat. The same thing occurred following Ronald Reagan


defeating Jimmy Carter in 1980. A whole lot of Democrats abandoned their party, leaving


it in the hands of the ultra-left who proceeded to nominate first Walter Mondale and then Mike Dukakis as their candi-


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dates in the elections of 1984 and 1988, respectively. It wasn’t until 1992 that the party regained its balance and nominated a centrist like Bill Clinton. The party elders and leaders can’t and usually won’t try


to control the process. Why? They’re terrified of losing their base, they won’t move to


the center, and their increasingly rabid and radical followers will just push them further to the left. The Democrats should be looking at the likes of Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., or former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But candidates like these,


while electable, can’t beat the true believers like Oca- sio-Cortez in the primaries. They’ll talk about moving to the center, but they won’t do it because the radicals who have taken over their party will hoot and shout them down if they try. AOC is currently touring


the country with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a fellow ultra- liberal.


Sanders, 83, probably


won’t run for president again after his previous failures. In 2028, he would be 85. So, Sanders is seemingly


accepting the inevitable and seeking to transfer his mantle, if not his aura, to the four-term, 35-year-old congresswoman from Brooklyn and Queens, New York. If that were not his intent, why would he be touring with Ocasio-Cortez? It’s too early to make predictions, but not too soon to read


the tea leaves. You heard it here first: AOC may well be the Democrat nominee for president


in 2028. If so, fasten your seatbelts.


Dick Morris is a former presidential adviser and host of Dick Morris Democracy on Newsmax TV.


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