AOC breaks her silence on Trump's election victory with 'fear-mongering' video to fans

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is warning that the United States may be entering an era of 'fascism and authoritarianism' as the country prepares for President-elect Donald Trump to return to power.

The 35-year-old liberal New York congresswoman hopped on Instagram Wednesday to speak with her followers about the election results where she painted an extremely bleak picture for the country's future.

The 'Squad' member said the U.S. is entering a political period that will have consequences 'for the rest of our lives.'

'We find ourselves I believe in a time where there are lets say peers in history of massive movements of people that mobilize to protect one another in times of fascism and authoritarianism. And this is the era that we are poised to enter,' AOC said.

Her live video to social media came less than 24 hours after Trump had a crushing victory in the 2024 presidential election with what is likely to be a clean sweep of every battleground state which left Democrats reeling.

The congresswoman, who cruised to her own victory in New York, dressed in a t-shirt and little makeup appeared to be joining her followers from a kitchen.

She started by saying she hopes everyone is 'hanging in there' and acknowledged people were telling her they are upset and scared.

AOC spoke about what everyone experienced with the election before giving her grim take on what's ahead.

'Donald Trump has talked about turning the military on U.S. citizens that he deems his domestic political enemies. Authoritarians and people that he associates closely with and strongmen aboard in regimes like that, it's not uncommon to jail political dissidents or legislative opponents,' the congresswoman said.

'This is the world that we very realistically may be entering,' she added.

AOC was a close ally of Harris and hit the campaign trail for her with fellow Democratic lawmakers across battleground states during the election season.

The congresswoman said a lot of what happens next hinges on who controls the House, which has yet to be determined with a number of races that need to be called.

'If Democrats control that House, that gives a slight ledge to resist and prevent some of the worst legislative proposals from going through,' she said.

Ocasio-Cortez signaled that she believes Democrats do have a chance to reclaim the House, but that remains to be seen.

The 35-year-old also said outside the government, people need to take action to educate themselves on how the government works in what she called a very challenging and difficult time and spent the next few months preparing.

The congresswoman said 'no one has a crystal ball' as to whether Trump will do what he claims he would do, but she argued that when he says he is going to do something 'believe him.'

She pointed out that Trump's campaign press secretary confirmed that the president-elect remains committed to his promise of mass deportations of immigrants in the country illegally if he is elected.

The 35-year-old claimed she was not around to sugar-coat the reality, but people can choose to build, fight and support each other.

'We cannot give up,' she said.

The New Yorker during her remarks rejected finger pointing and argued anyone who is doing that has 'lost the forest for the trees.'

'There are a lot of different factors that have gotten to this moment,' she said.

She said what is going to be most important in this time is rejecting sectarianism and the party needs to be united.

'Our main projected is to unite the working class in this country against a fascist agenda. Period,' she said.

She said they have had a huge setback with the election 'because the fascists won a lot of working class support' and said there needs to be analysis, but she urged people not to remain divided over small differences.

AOC noted she has personal experience with this and spoke about her first bid for Congress in 2018. She pointed out that she went from being a waitress straight to being a congresswoman.

She said her own path to get there was by running not against a Republican but a Democrat who she did not believe was focused on families like hers.

The congresswoman said what she saw was a Democrat who was only running against Trump and didn't have a vision that spoke to her and her reality.