This past Friday, two of the most well-known radical left Democrats went to Colorado’s Front Range to make the case that the party’s resistance to the second Trump administration should focus on fighting a billionaire “oligarchy.”
As part of their “Fighting Oligarchy” trip through several Western states while Congress is on recess, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York drew big crowds to spots in Greeley and Denver. About 30,000 people were in the crowd at Civic Centre Park in Denver, and the event was ringed by fences that kept people out.
Sanders said, “We have never, ever had a rally as big as this.” He had been to hundreds of events before this one. “Denver, your presence here today is important for more than just Colorado.” All over the world, you are sending a very important word. The whole world is watching to see if the American people will stand up to Trumpism, oligarchy, and dictatorship.
A packed Bank of Colorado Arena at the University of Northern Colorado booed as Sanders, an independent socialist who caucuses with the Democrats, talked about how he was at President Trump’s second inauguration with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and other very wealthy people with close ties to the president.
Sanders said, “Lincoln talked about a government of the people, by the people, for the people.” “Well, Trump’s government is made up of billionaires, for billionaires, and by billionaires.” These people are currently working hard to attack Medicaid, Social Security, and food stamps. There is no one the rich don’t want to hurt in their quest for wealth.
In its first few months in office, Trump’s government has tried to give the president more power than ever before. One way they have done this is through the actions of Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. It has tried to shut down agencies that were set up by Congress, fired a lot of federal workers, and kept a freeze on some federal funds even after court orders. All of these actions go against long-standing separation-of-powers ideas in the U.S. Constitution.
Sanders said in Greeley, “We have to deal with more than just oligarchy. Under Trump, this country is moving very quickly towards an authoritarian order.” “We now have a president who every day threatens freedom of speech and freedom of assembly and breaks down our Constitution.”
