In biblical terms, an anti-christ is someone with diametrically sinister intents who inveigles to replace Christ in his second coming. Many wish for this to happen in the 2020 presidential election. Do the Democrats have any candidates capable of fulfilling this role? According to Ballotpedia, 248 Democrats could well be on this list, although there are today "only" 24 who have officially formed a presidential exploratory committee. All are close enough to be that anti-christ.
Ironically, the person who best fits the role of an anti-Trump cannot run in 2020, she is only 29, and can't even compete in 2024. But in many ways, she just might have that extraordinary power to anoint the anti-Trump for 2020. AOC is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and she was featured on the April Fool's issue this year of TIME magazine. But she is no joke.
AOC:
- female
- Hispanic
- born in New York City just before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, when Nancy Pelosi entered Congress
- when growing up helped her mom clean the homes of neighbors
- won a science-fair prize for research involving free radicals (the chemical kind)
- took out student loans for matriculation at Boston University and interned in Senator Ted Kennedy's office, but her father passed away in her sophomore year, and this was 2008 when there was an national economic meltdown
- she somehow stuck through her enrollment and graduated cum laude, in 2011, with a student-loan debt of $25,000
- joined an educational nonprofit, while bartending, working 18 hours/day
- after Trump was elected President in 2016, she joined some dogooders who stuffed into a borrowed 1998 Subaru to assist the Standing Rock Indian Reservation protest against an oil pipeline, while stopping by lead-poisoned Flint, Michigan to gain a first-hand account of the situation there
- on the way back to New York a group called Brand New Congress (their aim: develop anti-Trump leaders) called (on a nomination by her brother) her to run for Congress, against Joe Crowley, the ten-term, fourth-ranking House Democrat
- she really had no chance, but, somehow, upset him by 15 points (being outspent 18 to 1),
- then beat the Republican, plus Crowley, who ran as third party candidate, garnering 78% of the votes, to become the youngest female ever, at the age of 29, in the U.S. Congress.
- has more Twitter followers than Speaker Nancy Pelosi
- FOX TV is obsessed by AOC, portraying her as a radical socialist who threatens the American way of life
- from a nobody who wandered the country like a Johnny Appleseed to help needy groups, she has shot up to become the spirit of what leadership should be like for our future America
- first piece of legislation was the wishful and potentially historic Green New Deal, with Senator Ed Markey, to phase out fossil fuel use in a decade and overhaul the nation's infrastructure
- wants to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, the bane of Hispanics
- advocates universal healthcare, having campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2016
- staunch proponent of LGBTQ rights and equality
- campaigns for establishing tuition-free colleges and trade schools
- supports the impeachment of President Trump
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory named an asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez, based on her science fair project in high school
- has became the inspiration to youthful social activists with vision and effectiveness
But not all is necessarily well, for The Hill said she had a bad month and might have violated Federal Election Commission rules. But this article was written by an attorney who serves with the advisory board of the Donald Trump campaign.
So AOC has become:
- the dominant face of the Democrats
- America's newest human Rorschach test
- Wonder Woman of liberals and Wicked Witch of the right
- hot online, for when she said the lipstick she generally wears, is Beso by Stil, it sold out online
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