Honestly, I’d rather AOC stay right where she is anyway. There’s more to government than the presidency, and we need more young, emphatically leftist voices like hers in the legislature. Like, a lot more.
Congress is disproportionately old; more than 80% of the House and almost 90% of the Senate is over the age of 50, but people over 50 make up only about a third of the total US population. If you look at congresspeople younger than 40, the stats are even worse; only 4% of the House and 0% of the Senate fit that description, despite the minimum age requirements for those positions being 25 and 30, respectively. I don’t say this to be ageist, but to emphasize the fact that younger people have essentially no generational representation in the legislative branch of our government, and there are significant differences in political belief and policy proscriptions that break along generational lines.
The presidency is also important, to be sure, but having the most progressive president in history isn’t going to amount to a hill of beans in the long term if they’re pitted against the current legislature.
