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Whoopi Goldberg admonished Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her treatment of older Democrats during an appearance by the congresswoman on “The View” Wednesday.

Goldberg said her excitement for AOC’s election fizzled out after the lawmaker “dismissed” older Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

“I was very happy when you were elected because I thought it was a great step … and then you lost me,” Goldberg told Ocasio-Cortez during a polite back-and-forth, “because it felt like you were saying to people like me that I was too old and didn’t do enough.”

Ocasio-Cortez jumped in saying, “oh, no.” But Goldberg continued.

“Well, that’s what it sounded like. And so that has bothered me … you’re on my shoulders and we have carried this fight,” Goldberg said, calling Pelosi and Feinstein politicians who have to navigate being “the only chick in the room.”

There was an obvious rift last year between more moderate Democrats like Pelosi and the progressive freshman class that included AOC. At one point, AOC’s chief of staff at the time attacked Pelosi in a scathing tweet of the moderate Blue Dogs, calling them the “New Southern Democrats.”

Pelosi jabbed back by openly mocking them in the papers.

But AOC Wednesday assured that any bad blood was in the past and all was copacetic between the fractions.

“Nancy Pelosi–that’s mama bear of the Democratic Party,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“I think it’s important to say that … youth and culture– it’s always been seen and cast as rebellious but ultimately we are not a movement that is disconnected from our past,” she went on. “We are part of a long movement of ancestors and elders that we should always acknowledge.”