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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The amount of resentment that happened in 2016 that I think…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Published | Video Starts at 21:01

… facts are not separated or not that we have this hierarchy, but that they are put together because emotions are also information as well. And if we, I think, are. The amount of resentment that happened in 2016 that I think led to the Democratic loss was the fact that we were telling, implicitly, I feel like we had been telling people that what they are seeing is not what is happening. And that created a lot of resentment. And people wanted to punish those who were doing that. And I think that was an outlet for that. (21:01–21:17)

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Asserts that Democratic loss in 2016 was due to perceived dishonesty about reality.

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