AOC’s 2028 Presidential Opportunity: Time Is Now

I have very little to say about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs, other than to say parenthood is one of the great joys and experiences in life, and I hope she gets to enjoy that someday.

Over in the New York Times, Tressie McMillan Cottom argues that AOC’s video discussing her eggs is a de facto announcement of her 2028 presidential campaign: “The rollout — personal, confessional and intimate — had all the social media savvy that made her a political star. It also gets ahead of the inevitable questions about how, or if, she will have children. In short, Ocasio-Cortez has crafted a political message in which the form and content suggest that she will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run.”

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I have very little to say about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs, other than to say parenthood is one of the great joys and experiences in life, and I hope she gets to enjoy that someday.

Over in the New York Times, Tressie McMillan Cottom argues that AOC’s video discussing her eggs is a de facto announcement of her 2028 presidential campaign: “The rollout — personal, confessional and intimate — had all the social media savvy that made her a political star. It also gets ahead of the inevitable questions about how, or if, she will have children. In short, Ocasio-Cortez has crafted a political message in which the form and content suggest that she will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run.”