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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right: Far-left City Councilman Chi Ossé’s bid to unseat House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is not “a good idea.”
Per Post sources, the privileged Brooklyn radical launched this challenge against the explicit objections of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who’s focused on pursuing his agenda — not a Democratic civil war.
Ossé is an opportunistic twit who quit the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter years ago, saying he was “not aligned with the organization itself” . . . but recently rejoined after Mamdani showed what a force the DSA can be.
Of course he presents that move as selfless, writing in the radical journal Jacobin that he did it “because the movement surge that carried Zohran into office must grow into a tidal wave.”
I.e., a wave Ossé wants to surf into his next job.
Then again, many DSAers despise the left-centrist Jeffries, who only endorsed Mamdani shortly before Election Day and is backing multiple moderate Dems in order to win a House majority next year.
We’d be happy to see the DSA fall into internal warfare, as various factions battle over prioritizing the fight to capture retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler’s seat, or to oust insufficiently anti-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman or maybe take out Queens Democratic boss Rep. Greg Meeks.
It’s amusing to watch onetime firebrand AOC play the responsible stateswoman.
And to track Mamdani’s attempts to pragmatically work the halls in Albany to win his tax hikes and any other loose cash that can fund his $10 billion first-year plans.
The mayor-elect, that is, needs to keep his DSA troops from going full Viking to burn down the Democratic Party before it pays him some danegeld.
Even if it does serve Mamdani’s needs, we’ll be happy to see him join AOC in squashing the insufferable Ossé.
