New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez He warned that the US was entering a period of “fascism and authoritarianism” after his election Donald Trump to the White House on Tuesday.

The House representative made the statement during an hour-long debate with his supporters on Wednesday and broadcast through his official channel. instagram bill.

Trump was elected president There are at least 295 votes in the Electoral College, according to the Associated Press. The news agency also reported that he was ahead in Arizona and Nevada, two states he had not yet called. He is also on track to win the popular vote. Harris conceded defeat in her speech on Wednesday and said: Americans “must accept” election result.

on wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said: “We find ourselves at a time in the history of, say, the likes of mass movements of people mobilizing to protect each other in times of fascism and authoritarianism. And this is an era we are ready to enter.

“Donald Trump has talked about turning the military against US citizens whom he sees as his own political enemies at home. Authoritarians and people he has close ties to, and powerful men abroad; it is not uncommon in such regimes to imprison political opponents or legislative opponents. This is very realistic.” It’s the world we might be entering.”

news week He contacted the Trump campaign and Ocasio-Cortez’s office via email outside normal business hours.

In October, Trump said the presidential election could be under threat. “the enemy within” during a Fox News appearance.

“I think the biggest problem is the enemy within,” he said. “We have some very bad people, some sick people, radical left lunatics. And that should be handled very easily by the National Guard if necessary, or by the military if really necessary.”

Ocasio-Cortez continued to defend the Vice President’s campaign performance Kamala Harris and suggesting that his defeat may have been the result of “misogyny.”

He said: “I think it’s important to note here that Kamala Harris has been given a task that has never been given to anyone else in American history. To launch a presidential campaign in 90 to 100 days… and to save the country from disaster. She’s already been campaigning for eight years.” The enormous fascist threat that drives and primes the pump…

“This race may not have been determined by any individual factors, but misogyny is very real in this country… If Kamala Harris had been Tom Harris, I don’t know if we would have had a different outcome today.”

The New York representative, who was re-elected with nearly 70 percent of the vote on Tuesday, added that his party must “return to its roots as a defender of the working class.”

Wednesday also saw Senator Bernie Sandersan independent compatible Democratic PartyHarris’s defeat in the presidential elections “abandoned” the working class.

He said: “It shouldn’t be too surprising that a Democratic Party that has abandoned working-class people sees the working class abandoning them.

“First there was the white working class, now there are Latino and Black workers.”

These words provoked an angry reaction Democratic National Committee chair Jamie Harrison who defined them “Straight up BS.”

Harrison added: “Biden was the most professional labor President of my lifetime; he saved Union pensions, created millions of good-paying jobs, and even walked the picket line.”