A former AOC superfan just pulled the fire alarm on New York’s next little socialist experiment. Her name is Lucy Biggers, and she’s sounding the kind of alarm that only comes from painful experiences. You know, the kind that hits after you’ve paid taxes, bought a home and realized socialism works great until the bill shows up.
“If I was 25, I would’ve been obsessed with Zohran,” she says in a video she posted on X. That’s Zohran Mamdani, the newest darling of the Democratic socialist crowd after his recent primary win.
But Lucy’s not 25 anymore. She’s 35. She’s got two kids and a mortgage. And reality has a way of making the glow of Marxist fairy tales fade fast. “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.”
According to Biggers, when you raise taxes to fund all those giveaways, rich people do what rich people always do. They pack up and leave. And when they do, guess who’s stuck holding the bag?
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.. These policies don’t make cities fairer, they make them poorer. The people who are supposed to foot the bill leave, and the rest of us are stuck with higher taxes, more regulations, and less to show for it.”
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VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELWhen I was 25, I would’ve been obsessed with Zohran Mamdani.
At 27, I helped get AOC elected. I made a viral video about her campaign, met her a bunch of times, and was totally bought in.
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— Lucy Biggers (@LLBiggers) June 25, 2025
Now here’s where it gets more interesting. Biggers wasn’t just some bystander. She helped launch AOC into the national spotlight. She says, “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.”
That interview turned into a viral video on Now This, the digital playground for progressives. And AOC’s team? They jumped on it. Promoted it. Paid for it. “They downloaded it, and they used it as a campaign asset. They used it as a digital ad,” Biggers says.
So, yes, Biggers helped light the fuse on the AOC fireworks show. “The video got her message out. At that time, no one cared about AOC, she was not on cable news,” she explains.
And what did that lead to? A shocking upset when AOC knocked out a 10-term incumbent in the 2018 primary. Then she steamrolled her way into Congress.
Fast forward to today. Biggers lives in Connecticut. She owns a home. She has two kids. She works in the city. And she’s not buying the same utopia she once helped sell.
She says the pandemic changed her. Government spending, unchecked promises, massive inflation. It all hit close to home. “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.”
But the story doesn’t end with AOC. Biggers sees the same pattern repeating itself with Mamdani. And this time, she’s not applauding from the sidelines.
She reflects on her younger self and cringes. “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.”
That’s the word. Embarrassing.
But Biggers is careful. She says Mamdani’s supporters are sincere. She gets it. They want change. They believe they’re helping. “It’s young people who want to make a change. And he ran a really great campaign honestly,” she concedes.
But she doesn’t sugarcoat it either. “But I just think it’s selling a fantasy that ultimately doesn’t work.”
No surprise, Ocasio-Cortez’ and Mamdani’s offices didn’t want to comment. Of course they didn’t. The last thing they want to address is what happens when their supporters grow up, look back, and say, “Oops.”
Lucy Biggers isn’t a right-wing operative. She’s not a Koch-funded plant. She’s someone who bought the product, used it, and figured out it’s not built to last.
That’s the story. And if you’re still clinging to the dream of free stuff with no strings attached, maybe ask yourself why so many former believers are quietly backing away from the altar.
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