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AOC predicts she won’t be president — because Americans ‘hate women’ 

 

By Emily Crane

 

 

New York Post 

September 7, 2022

 

“Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center,” the democratic socialist said in her GQ cover interview. 

 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it’s unlikely she could ever be elected president of the United States — because so many people in America “hate women” and “would never let that happen.”

The socialist firebrand New York Democrat speculated about the possibilities of her launching a future White House bid in a wide-ranging and fawning cover interview with GQ magazine published Wednesday.

Ocasio-Cortez said that while she tries to hold onto the belief that anything is possible, her experience in Congress has “given me a front-row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women.”

“And they hate women of color,” added the 32-year-old, who was described in the article as the “political voice of a generation” and “bona fide culture celebrity.”

“People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September. And that weighs very heavily on me. And it’s not just the right wing. Misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center,” the democratic socialist continued. 

“I admit to sometimes believing that I live in a country that would never let that happen.”

 

The socialist firebrand on the cover of GQ, which published Sept. 7.

 

Ocasio-Cortez said she struggles when young girls tell her they want her to be president one day.

“It’s very difficult for me to talk about because it provokes a lot of inner conflict in that I never want to tell a little girl what she can’t do,” she said. “And I don’t want to tell young people what is not possible. I’ve never been in the business of doing that. But at the same time…”

In addition to being a woman, the legislator claimed that her opposition to Wall Street could also hinder any potential bid for the presidency.

“Could [former President Barack] Obama have gotten elected without the kind of financial support that he had?” she said. “I don’t know.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insists Americans despise “women of color.”

 

Ocasio-Cortez also theorized how, even if she were to be elected commander-in-chief, she’d face the wrath of the political system — from the Senate to the Supreme Court — that she says would impede her goals.

“There are still plenty of limitations,” she claimed. “It’s tough, it’s really tough.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the congresswoman spoke of the “open hostility” she encountered from her own Democratic Party colleagues after taking office in 2018.

“It was open hostility, open hostility to my presence, my existence,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Since I got here, literally day one, even before day one, I’ve experienced a lot of targeting diminishment from my party. And the pervasiveness of that diminishment, it was all-encompassing at times. I feel a little more steady on my own two feet now.

“But would I say that I have the power to shift the elected federal Democratic Party? No.”

 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has previously criticized President Biden for not being progressive. 

 

Ocasio-Cortez also delved into her personal life and relationship with fiancé Riley Roberts in the interview, as well as why she decided publicly reveal she had been raped in her early 20s.

Weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, the congresswoman took to Instagram to disclose that she was a survivor of sexual assault as she explained the trauma she relived during the insurrection.

“I could not talk about that day without disclosing it, because it was such a central part of my experience,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the interview, referring to her account of having to hide in congressional offices as rioters stormed in.

“I felt like I could not really adequately communicate what that experience was without giving people the context of what I had lived through and what was being echoed, because so much of it was about resonance and fear of a thing that was not theoretical but a fear of a thing that I had experienced.”

The congresswoman addressed the rape again when she spoke to anti-abortion protestors in Manhattan’s Union Square after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in June.

 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes her chances for the White House are slim.

 

She told GQ that she had carefully weighed her decision to open up further about being assaulted given how much her opponents – both on the left and right – have dissected her words since taking office.

“One major trauma that a lot of survivors of assault deal with is a struggle with being believed,” she said. “There are aspects of it that I may never share because of the trauma of having that experience litigated in public.”

Speaking about her notoriously private relationship with her fiancé, Ocasio-Cortez said she questioned whether her being an independent, successful woman would affect them.

“The moment you start being yourself, they kind of freak out,” she said. “I think it causes a conflict within them that they didn’t even anticipate. It’s not even a deception. It’s just, they uncover insecurities that they didn’t know were there.”

But Ocasio-Cortez – who met Riley when they were 19 at Boston University — said the opposite happened when she was elected and thrust in the public eye.

“For him to experience us dating when I was still working as a waitress and a bartender through now and seeing how the world responds [to me], I think has been a very eye-opening experience for him as well,” she said.