Posted on 11/14/2026 3:04:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City convention on Saturday arrived at a moment of heady promise for the group.
The chapter has nearly tripled its size since Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. Members knocked on doors and canvassed sidewalks to send two more D.S.A. members to Congress and half a dozen new members to the State Legislature, where they are expected to push to raise taxes on the rich.
But New York’s D.S.A. chapter now faces a set of prickly questions about how to use its newfound local influence to change the priorities of city government, and whether to put its national influence to the test by running a candidate for president.
The resolutions debated by more than 400 delegates in a Midtown Manhattan office building were designed to set the political and legislative priorities for the next two years.
D.S.A. members debated nine resolutions, whittled down from a longer list of roughly 100 that had been submitted leading up to the event.
The highest-profile vote, whose outcome came as little surprise, was a resolution encouraging Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, to run for president in 2028, which passed by a margin of 291 to 123. The resolution was not an official endorsement, but it made clear that the local chapter would push her candidacy, much as it did her long-shot bid for the House in 2018.
D.S.A. members also unanimously approved a resolution to pressure city government to prioritize community safety. They urged Mr. Mamdani to upgrade his Office of Community Safety to a department; expand the work of emergency responders with mental health training; and disband the Police Department’s Strategic Response Group. (Mr. Mamdani is expected to announce the overhaul of the unit on Monday.)
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It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
I’d like to say she has no chance of winning, but after this last election, I’m not so sure anymore.
Word Salad with pure vinegar dressing.
Doesn’t matter she has mental issues and is on drugs or maybe they like that because they can control her 100%
Agree. She’s the typhoid Mary of stupid and it’s spreading.
Ossoff/AOC
AOC/Ossoff
If Obama starts crawling into her life like a large black spider with long,spindly legs, you will know that she’s been chosen for the next puppet.
She might as well. Can’t hurt her to lose. Media paparazzi are breathless chasing her. Book deal. Raise money for next time.
GOOD! Let her run—It will be easy to defeat her! Any Republican with his salt could beat her—Senator Kennedy could beat her, Laura Trump could beat her (now that would be a debate worth watching).
So will we have to stop calling the GOPee “The Stupid Party” if she is nominated?
Oh wait! Silly me. Of course not. We didn’t do it for Brandon and Heels Up.
Carry on.
I wish you were right.
But remember the many FR posts when AOC first ran and then won in her local district for the House: “She will be shown to be incompetent and not doing anything at all for her constituents and they’ll dump her next time in 2 years.”
More popular than ever. A star.
As Hunter Thompson’s line: The scum also rises.
I’ll take the chance of a sick joke now.
What if a hooded figure with sunglasses emerges from the crowd of cheering onlookers and pulls his hand out of his raincoat pocket slowly and it is....her spurned red haired ex-boyfriend.
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Nope.
Rubio? Maybe we can win but only because he'll appeal to Hispanic voters.
Word Salad with pure vinegar dressing.
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Vinegar and water perhaps?
Let’s just fast forward to the collapse of the United States and elect the bartender.
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