In an absolutely wild video posted to Instagram in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s electoral victory, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes (D-NY) claimed that the now-president-elect will start jailing dissidents like her as soon as he becomes president, an utterly hysterical and ridiculous fear.
Beginning that part of the video, New York City’s most prominent “Squad” member said that the next few years will be monumentally important. Making that claim, AOC said, “We are about to enter a political period that will have consequences for the rest of our lives. We cannot give up.”
Continuing, she got to the authoritarianism bit, saying, “We now find ourselves in a time in history that has precedent and we find ourselves, I believe, in a time where there are, let’s say, peers in history of mass movements of people that mobilize to protect one another, in times of fascism and authoritarianism.”
She next added that Trump will soon start sending the military after his domestic opponents, saying, “And this is the era that we are poised to enter. Donald Trump has talked about turning the military on US citizens that he deems his domestic political enemies, authoritarians, and people that he affiliates closely with and strong men abroad.”
Still not done, the woke lawmaker said that the president-elect will“jail political dissidents or legislative opponents” in his upcoming term. “This is the world that we very realistically may be entering,” she then added on the same point, once again stressing the supposed importance of the moment.
In that part of the lengthy statement, she said, “Donald Trump has talked about turning the military on U.S. citizens that he deems his domestic political enemies. Authoritarians and people that he affiliates closely with and strongmen abroad in regimes like that, it is not uncommon to jail political dissidents or legislative opponents. This is the world that we very realistically may be entering. And the way that we do everything that we can to prevent this is by building a very strong social fabric and social infrastructure.”
Watch her lengthy video statement here:
This isn’t the first time AOC has claimed as much. Previously, back in the summer of this year, when Trump started rising in the polls, she said, “I mean, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail. He’s out of his mind. I mean, he did his whole first campaign around ‘lock her up.’ This is his motto.”
Adding to that fearful commentary on the former president, the congresswoman said, “I take him at his word when he says that he’s going to round up people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists. I take him at his word. I feel like what we saw in his first presidency was an amuse-bouche to what his intentions are. He has learned from his mistakes of appointing professionals, and he will not make that mistake next time.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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