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- AOC says the left was "bewildered" by power for so long because they hadn't experienced having it.
- She told The Times that power was generally seen as something held by a "consummate insider."
- In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez spoke of how the Democratic Party has changed since her first election in 2018.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a newly-published interview said that her political influence has been scrutinized so heavily by Democrats because progressive members of the party "haven't really had a political presence" in the United States like the one they currently possess.