AOC has guaranteed her defeat in 2020

In a few short weeks in office, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has all but guaranteed she will lose her seat in Congress in 2020.

Here are a few relevant considerations.

First, in her Green New Deal AOC has proposed that all jet travel in the continental United States be replaced by high-speed rail at the very moment that Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, the most liberal state in the nation, just applied the brakes to the plan to build a high-speed rail connection between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Said Newsom in his State of the State address:

Next, let’s level about high speed rail. I have nothing but respect for Governor Brown’s and Governor Schwarzenegger’s ambitious vision. I share it. And there’s no doubt that our state’s economy and quality of life depend on improving transportation. But let’s be real. The project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long. There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency. Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were.

The fact that Newsom is pulling back from high-speed rail is a clear indication that, in spite of all the good intentions of green politicians, a significant commitment to high-speed rail in the United States is simply not economically feasible. And yet, AOC persists in naively promoting this boondoggle that even her most liberal brethren are now backing away from.

Second, AOC has been taking calls from Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labor Party and well-known anti-Semite, while at the same time representing a Congressional district in a metropolitan area well-known for its large Jewish population.

And now comes her opposition to Amazon. According to Quinnipiac, 55 percent of Queens residents were in favor of the tax incentive package to bring Amazon to Queens versus 39 percent who were opposed. When Amazon decided not to come to Queens after encountering the fierce opposition of such politicians as AOC and Democratic State Senator Mike Gianaris, the twit AOC tweeted:

Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world.

Worker exploitation? Did you pull that from your copy of the Cliff Notes for Das Kapital? We are talking AMZN here! Even if they are not union members, their workers are probably among the most fairly compensated employees in the world. Besides, AOC, it is highly probable that all of AMZN's buildings would have been LEED compliant, giving your congressional district a head start in making all the buildings in America energy efficient, per your Green New Deal. You could have crowed that you supported the employer who was bringing well-paying green jobs to Queens. But nooooooooooooo! Instead you had to go all "19th century worker exploitation" on Jeff Bezos.

Here's a description from today's WSJ of the reaction of some of those "everyday New Yorkers" to the socialist workers paradise AOC has created by opposing Amazon's HQ2:

Developers with office space in Long Island jockeyed to attract the thousands of workers that were expected, and local residents cheered the promise that new restaurants, fashion boutiques and other new stores would flood the retail-starved neighborhood. Now, suddenly, much of the euphoria is evaporating. ... Elijah Kliger ... said he was considering cutting up to 15 jobs from his business plan. “This is going to be devastating,” he said. “The retail corridors of Long Island City have just showed signs of life. This puts the kibosh on the activity that has been happening."

In the old days, constituents used to cheer when their congressperson brought home the bacon, a new air force base, say, or a new IRS processing facility. Well, AOC just chased the bacon away.

In 2020, another liberal Democrat will run in 14th NY District and remind disgruntled voters of all these considerations, causing AOC to join Beto O'Rourke among the ranks of the most famous ex-Congresspeople alive. If I were that liberal Democrat in the 14th District, I would start campaigning right now! Remind the people that AOC represents not the bright new future of clean high-tech jobs in the 21st century, but the tired old economically infeasible socialist politics, unions, and anti-Semitism of the 19th.

AOC, you have been too busy traveling around the country playing the media darling to pay attention to the real welfare and wishes of your constituents. Your 15 minutes of fame are up.