Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds as he pushes Democrats to 'fight oligarchy'

[Uncle Joe]

TEMPE, Ariz. – Sen. Bernie Sanders has emerged as a leading voice for voters opposed to President Trump's rapid push to dismantle the federal government — and frustrated with the Democratic Party's response.

Sanders and his fiery form of economic populism attacking the growing influence of billionaires and corporations in politics are not new, but interest in both message and messenger has been renewed by Trump's second term and the outsized role Elon Musk has played in cutting federal spending and pushing agencies to fire workers.

"Well, when I talked about oligarchy over the years, I think for some people it was an abstraction," Sanders said in an interview with NPR. Now though, "people understand you have to be blind not to see that what we have today is a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires."

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For his part, Sanders is not surprised his longstanding message seems to be resonating with people across the ideological spectrum:

"Because if you're a working class Republican, you don't think it makes a lot of sense to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the richest people in this country and then cut the [Department of Veterans Affairs], go after Social Security and make $800 billion cuts in Medicaid," he said. "Republican, independent, Democrat… very few people think that makes any sense at all."

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5334488/bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy-tour-trump-musk-doge-democrats

[GreenWave]

1. And people understand the word "oligarch". It is all over the news.

Maybe a few do not, but only a few.

[sunflowerseed]

2. A.O.C ANTI OLIGARCHS CLUB

Can someone make us/her t-shirts, posters ext.

[marble falls]

5. With this motto: "It ain't theirs. It Belongs to We the People."

[Dave Bowman]

3. K&R

[marble falls]

4. He's beginning to draw the size of crowds we need out soon.

[comradebillyboy]

6. Is he telling the crowds to elect Democrats?

[Uncle Joe]

7. No, he's telling them to fight oligarchy, hence the name of the tour, "Fighting Oligarchy."

Besides they would probably get angry with him if he did, because it's not 2026 yet and while they might wait in line for hours for Bernie and AOC to speak, they would get frustrated waiting over a year to vote at the currently closed polling stations.