Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a discordant note "in the spirit of the people"

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, during her speech.

“In the spirit of the people”, thus, in Spanish, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nominated her mentor Bernie Sanders for president of the United States, on the second day of the Democratic National Convention. Despite the diminished role entrusted to him, barely a minute to go through the process of presenting an already defeated candidate, Ocasio-Cortez had time to describe the progressive movement from which, with the foreseeable retirement of the twice-defeated senator from Vermont, she has become a standard bearer. It is, she said, "a movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards a minority with explosive wealth inequalities, at the cost of the long-term stability of the majority."

In the midst of the unanimous celebration of a candidate choreographed to the millimeter, a minute was enough for the congresswoman to remind the party that the leftist sector, although it will park its agenda and row in favor of Biden these three months, must be taken into account as of November if it reaches the White House. The diplomatic aspect of his speech, in which he certainly did not pronounce Biden's name, did not hide the fact that the congresswoman has spent months putting his enormous popularity at the service of progressive candidates who, in congressional primaries in different parts of the country,.

This silent work of renewal of candidacies, ideological, ethnic and generational, occurs at a time when the party is led by moderate white septuagenarians (Biden) or octogenarians (Nancy Pelosi). The success of the progressive candidates in the congressional primaries contrasts with Biden's victory that the party establishment secured in the most important race. Despite the winks to the left during the race, the centrist managed to prevail without adopting the two priorities of the progressives: universal public health and the Green New Deal, the great offensive against the climate crisis. That is why, in the proclamation of a candidate who has referred to himself as a transitional president, Ocasio-Cortez's intervention came to remind that the left is here to stay.