Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may be downplaying her 2028 ambitions, but she has left little doubt that she doesn’t plan to remain in the House indefinitely. The congresswoman’s only possible misstep was using a progressive buzzword to imply a second iteration of wokeness is coming, possibly under the leadership of her political faction. Socialists believe they can win back the working-class voters Democrats lost to President Donald Trump over the past decade by shedding their cultural radicalism and focusing on the economy. Socialists running as Democrats have yet to demonstrate they can actually win working-class voters without redefining what it means to be working class. AdvertisementWhether voters find this convincing could go a long way toward deciding how the 2028 elections go.