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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Answered the Presidential-Run Question

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the future of the Democratic Party ever since her upset win in the 2016 race for New York’s 14th Congressional District. It’s hardly a leap to imagine Matt Gaetz’s least-favorite colleague running for president and actually winning in the nearish future.

But when she was finally asked about the possibility of President AOC, the congresswoman seemed a little more ambivalent than you might expect.

In her cover interview , Ocasio-Cortez said that the idea of a person like her—a progressive woman of color—running for president, or little girls telling her they hope she becomes president one day, “provokes a lot of inner conflict.” AOC explained that while she’d still like to believe that anything is possible, “at the same time, my experience here 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.” The congresswoman said that when people ask her about the future, she can’t even say for sure if she’ll be alive in the near future, adding that “misogyny transcends political ideology: left, right, center.” She acknowledged, “I admit to sometimes believing that I live in a country that would never let that happen.” But that’s not the only thing that .

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