JAY CARUSO: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shouldn’t insult Nancy Pelosi. She should learn from her.

The problem is that she’s still behaving like an advocate, not a legislator. The recent comments by Pelosi about AOC and her fellow freshmen Democrats, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, shone a spotlight on the shortcomings of Pelosi’s younger colleagues.

When asked about the recent $4.6 billion emergency border package, which Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib all voted against in the form of a protest vote, Pelosi said, “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”

You can imagine the response. Time magazine editor-at-large, Anand Giridharadas, griped on Twitter, “These are four historic candidates and now members of Congress. And this is the language their boss throws at them? This is why people clamor for generational change. Because it is hard in life’s sunset to learn to see people you are trained to overlook.” Ocasio-Cortez in a tweet, said, “That public ‘whatever’ is called public sentiment. And wielding the power to shift it is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country.”

I’m not sure Jay realizes it, but he may have just shown why AOC will continue insulting Pelosi. The young congresswoman seems to think she’s learned all she needs to know to become the next Pelosi, and that the more she diminishes the current Speaker, the faster her rise to power.