AOC tells Democrats to 'retire' if they believe Biden will lose the election rather than be resigned to 'fascism'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded that Democrats who believe the party will lose in November should 'step aside' for accepting 'fascism.'

Democrats' concerns over the top of their ticket were put on hold after the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.

The jaw-dropping Trump rally brought calls for Joe Biden to step aside to a halt - and now as the momentum for him to go dies out, some Democrats are convinced they'll lose the election. 

A senior House Democrat told Axios: 'We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.' 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded that Democrats who believe the party will lose in November should 'step aside' for accepting 'fascism'

Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X of the quote: 

'If you’re a “senior Democrat” that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism. This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.' 

Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., have all stood firmly behind Joe Biden remaining at the top of their ticket as dozens of House Democrats have urged him to step down.

To progressives, Biden could be better than the alternative. Vice President Kamala Harris, for her part, made a career as a tough-on-crime prosecutor. 

'The Biden administration has been probably more open than most administrations to engaging with progressives,' Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of key progressive group Our Revolution, told DailyMail.com. 

'That being said our members are pretty clear about they just don't see him inspiring confidence in terms of electability.' 

The jaw-dropping Trump rally brought calls for Joe Biden to step aside to a halt - and now as the momentum for him to go dies out, some Democrats are convinced they'll lose the election

Polling done by Our Revolution, founded by Sen, Bernie Sanders, of some 16,000 of its progressive members found at a third of them were less likely to vote for Biden after the debate. 

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Still, some suspect that progressive lawmakers are willing to anger their grassroots by backing Biden so they aren't seen as the problem members of the caucus - the ones that establishment Democrats can unite against. 

'My suspicion would be the establishment Democratic Party would immediately blame progressives for [Biden's] electoral weaknesses. And I think in this case our progressive elected leaders did not want to be seen as the bloc of the party that was going to stand in the way.' 

A smattering of X posts accused AOC of marketing herself as a revolutionary and then becoming 'establishment.' 

'Remember when y'all told me AOC was going to change the establishment from the inside? yeah, me too,' read one post on X. 

Thee congresswoman 'long ago decided to rebrand herself & pivot to the establishment,' read another.