Former AOC backer has stark warning for young Mamdani fans: ‘They're selling a fantasy that doesn't work'
'If I was 25, I would've been obsessed with Zohran,' Lucy Biggers admits in a video she posted last week on X.
6 Lucy Biggers says socialist programs don't work because rich people flee to avoid higher taxes.
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'Now I'm 35, and I've grown up. The feel-good promises of free college, free food, free housing might sound great, but they don't work.'
She goes on to explain her view that socialist policies make cities poorer because rich people leave, while everyone else is left stuck with higher taxes — and little to show for it.
'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'
6 Biggers said she was really taken by AOC when they met in 2018 and they were both in their 20s.
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Biggers, who works in media, says she helped propel AOC from a virtual unknown to political juggernaut in 2018.
'I met AOC when she was basically a nobody. And I really thought she had something special going on, so I booked her for an interview at our studios,' Biggers told The Post.
She produced a viral video for progressive social media site Now This which Ocasio-Cortez' campaign ended up paying to promote on social media.
6 Biggers was a big supporter of AOC back in 2018.
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'They downloaded it, and they used it as a campaign asset . . . they used it as a digital ad,' said Biggers, who's now social media editor at The Free Press.
AOC shockingly defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic Primary for New York's 14th Congressional District, before she went on to win the seat in the midterm election that November.
'The video got her message out. At that time, no one cared about AOC, she was not on cable news,' Biggers recalled.
6 Ocasio-Cortez was a big boost to fellow socialist Zohran Mamdani mayoral campaign for NYC.
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Fast forward seven years, and Biggers, who now is a homeowner and a mother of two in Connecticut, is seeing things a bit differently.
She said the pandemic and the impact of government spending was a big turning point.
'As you grow up, you start to see the world less black and white. You can't sell this bill of goods that promises to create a utopia in America,' said Biggers, who works in the city.
6 Biggers said she met AOC on a few occasions back in 2018.
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'There's a glorification of socialism among young people. They don't know what happened in Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR. They glamorize these countries and are indoctrinated into thinking the US is bad. It's very naive . . . it's embarrassing,' she said, reflecting on her own views back then.
Voter energy behind Mamdani is authentic, but the enthusiasm is entirely misplaced, Biggers said.
6 Biggers said she is seeing many parallels between Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani.
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'It's young people who want to make a change. And he ran a really great campaign honestly,' she said.
'But I just think it's selling a fantasy that ultimately doesn't work.'
Ocasio-Cortez' and Mamdani's offices declined to comment.
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