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

The House representative made the remarks during an hour-long discussion with supporters Wednesday, which she relayed through her official. Instagram account.

Trump was elected president with at least 295 Electoral College votes, according to The Associated Press. The news outlet also reported that he had previously been to Arizona and Nevada, the only two states he had not yet called. He is also on track to win the popular vote. Harris conceded defeat in a speech Wednesday in which he told Americans “I have to accept” the election result.

Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said: “We are, I think, at a time when there are, let’s say colleagues, in the history of mass movements of people mobilizing to protect each other in times of fascism and authoritarianism. And this is the age we are ready to enter.

“Donald Trump has talked about turning the military on American citizens he considers domestic political enemies. Authoritarians and their close associates and powerful people abroad — in regimes like these, it’s not uncommon to jail political dissidents or legislative opponents. That’s the world we can very realistically step into.”

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In October, Trump said the presidential election could be threatened by “the enemy within” during the Fox News appearance.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy within,” he said. “We have some very bad people, some sick people, crazy people on the radical left. And they should be very easily dealt with, if necessary, by the National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military.”

Ocasio-Cortez continued to defend the vice president’s campaign performance Kamala Harris and to suggest that her defeat may have been the result of “misogyny”.

She said: “I think it’s important to mention here that Kamala Harris has been given an assignment that no other person in American history has been given. To build a presidential campaign in 90 to 100 days…enormous fascist menace who had already been campaigning and priming the pump for almost eight years…

“This race may not have been decided by any single factor, but misogyny is very real in this country… If Kamala Harris was Tom Harris, we might have a different outcome today, I don’t know.”

The New York representative, who was re-elected on Tuesday with nearly 70 percent of the vote, added that her party should “return to our roots as champions of the working class.”

The senator was also on Wednesday Bernie Sandersan independent aligned with Democratic Partyreleased a statement suggesting that Harris’s defeat in the presidential election was the result of her party “abandoned” the working class.

He said: “It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that a Democratic Party that has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

“First it was the white working class, and now it’s Latino and black workers as well.”

These remarks provoked an angry response from Democratic National Committee seat Jaime Harrison who described them as “straight BS”.

Harrison added: “Biden has been the most professional president of my lifetime – saving Union pensions, creating millions of good-paying jobs and even marching in a picket line.”