Posted on 05/24/2025 4:41:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ATLANTA (AP) — The billionaire heir and the former bartender.
Many Democrats have been in and out of the spotlight as the party looks for effective counters to President Donald Trump and his second administration. But two disparate figures, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have seen their national profiles rise by delivering messages that excite a demoralized and fractured party.
The governor, a 60-year-old heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, and the congresswoman, the 35-year-old with working-class roots, both won their first elections in 2018. Both have urged mass resistance and accused their party of not fighting more. Each has stood out enough to draw sharp retorts from Trump loyalists.
But as messengers, Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez could not be more different. And their arguments, despite some overlap, are distinct enough to raise familiar questions for Democrats: Should they make their challenges to Trump about threats to democracy and national stability, as Pritzker has done, or portray him as a corrupt billionaire exacerbating an uneven economy, as Ocasio-Cortez does? And beyond the message itself, what qualities should the best messenger have?
What links them, said one prominent Democrat, is “assertiveness.”
“People want Trump and Trumpism to be met with equal passion and force,” said National Urban League President Marc Morial, a former New Orleans mayor deeply connected in Democratic politics. On that front, he added, Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez “are both effective national figures –- but in very different ways.”
Pritzker, an establishment power player
Pritzker was born at the bridge of the baby boomers and Generation X into a sprawling family now entrenched in Democratic politics. Like Trump, he inherited great wealth, but he lambastes...
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Prikster looks like a guy that Pauly Walnuts would beat with a baseball bat and screw his girlfriend.
The Rats absolutely should run these two. It’s all downhill from there.
Resistance to fair trade deals, a secure border, safe streets, a strong military, exposure of government waste and fraud and the bizarre LBGTQ agenda. Yeah, you guys run with that...
Oh Goody. Gov Creosote and the barmaid of the house. Be still my beating heart.
Pritzger is the definition of a Wall Street fat cat.
How does he get a pass, yet Elon doesn’t? At least Elon takes an active role in his company. Pritzy just sucks off the teat of the company his family built.
Fat trust fund kid.
Pritzer is an example of Oligarchs wealthy family (Hyatt)!that expands power
He’s worth $3.5B.
The MSM will carry the water no matter how low the dems go, even when Reagan slapped Carter sideways the dems didn’t fall as low and demoralized as they are today. Too bad our thin majority in congress is the same as it has always been, LOSERS.
Please let it be Governor Creosote.
Please.
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RE: a sprawling family now entrenched in Democratic politics.
He is sprawling even without a family. Said to legally occupy two zip codes himself while standing still.
Laurel & Hardy pair.
All the sane democrats have been pushed out, and they are now trying to masquerade as Republicans or something else. Those that are left are the super corrupt who have been participants in the looting of the public treasury, and/or so delusional as to think the policies they promote actually work in the real world. They like what Bernie Sanders promotes, but none of that has never and will never work because it goes against human nature. We need a 2 party system (any more and you have chaos) to balance and control the extremes of both. Because so may dems (RINOS) are in the Republican party do we really need the Democrat party at all?
I thought AOC was going with Bernie
Resisting something is chicken crap.
Propose something in high detail.
Prikster is a joke, has zero charisma and his record stinks.
I’m no AOC fan, but she would run rings around him.
I tend to think that when push comes to shove, the Dems will go with Newsom. At least he looks the part and can talk coherently.
Mr. Creosote and AOCD. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Oligarchy!
Years ago their was a ‘novel’ written about the Pritzger family. It was called “Girls in High Places” and was about a girl who was in a relationship with one of the Pritzgers. It is a fun novel to read. A bit explicit.
Pritzger the pinhead. The arsehole who pushed a gun confiscation bill thru and had every county sheriff sign a letter saying that they would not enforce.
Worse than Walz.
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