AOC not going to ‘sugarcoat what we are all about to collectively experience’

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“I’m not here to sugarcoat what we all are about to collectively experience, but I think that what we can do to prepare is build community,” Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday on an almost hourlong Instagram livestream.

She cited a Republican majority in both chambers of Congress, along with holding the White House, as a means to spur a federal abortion ban, mass deportation and the removal of vaccines, citing the anti-vaccine stance of presidential dropout Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is poised for a high-ranking public health role in Trump’s administration.

“We are about to enter a political period that will have consequences for the rest of our lives. We cannot give up,” Ocasio-Cortez noted.

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“Our main project is to unite the working class in this country against a fascist agenda, period,” she said. “We have had an enormous setback in this election, because the fascist won a lot of working-class support, which has happened before in history.”

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“I went from wiping down a bar and walking behind it to walking into the halls of Congress, and the reason I did that and the reason I ran was not because I was running against a Republican, it’s because I ran against a Democrat that I did not believe centered families or communities like mine or saw the pain of people like me,” she continued. “And a lot of what I saw at that time was a Democrat that only ran against Trump and did not support a vision that with clarity that spoke to my material reality, and I got to a point as a waitress where I felt like if my member of Congress wouldn’t support a $15 minimum wage and say it with their full chest with clarity.”

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