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BumRushDaShow

(151,121 posts)
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 04:12 PM Mar 23

Americans won't let Trump 'establish an oligarchic form of government': Bernie Sanders

Source: ABC News

March 23, 2025, 10:58 AM


Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour is an attempt to stand up to President Donald Trump's agenda.

"I'm trying to make it clear to the people throughout the world and throughout our own country, that the American people are not going to sit idly by and allow Trump [to] establish an oligarchic form of government where Musk and other billionaires are running our government," Sanders said in an exclusive interview with "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl during the tour's Denver stop.

"We're not going to sit back and allow him to form an authoritarian form of society, undermining the Constitution, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and undoing what the, you know, what the Founding Fathers of this country did in the 1790s, separation of powers, making sure that no one person had an extraordinary amount of power, and that is precisely what Trump is trying to do," he added.

Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, which he is conducting alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is making stops in both right- and left-leaning districts. The rallies have attracted thousands of people, but the Denver appearance brought in the largest crowds so far, with 32,000 attendees. Sanders said it was the largest rally he's ever hosted -- bigger than the rallies on his two presidential runs.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-trump-establish-oligarchic-form-government-bernie-sanders/story?id=120058332



Too late. It's mostly oligarchs who have been installed to head up what is left of the federal government.
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Americans won't let Trump 'establish an oligarchic form of government': Bernie Sanders (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 23 OP
The oligarchs are already firmly in power. The question is can we get our country back. Irish_Dem Mar 23 #1
sold to the highest bidder. /nt thought crime Mar 23 #2
If we want our country back we have to make a cash offer to Trump. Irish_Dem Mar 23 #4
I love Bernie and AOC... johnnyplankton Mar 23 #3
I keep envisioning the hunger games and the capital troops. yourout Mar 23 #5
Same. I appreciate the statement, but...as soon as I saw it, my response was, "But he already fucking has." Karasu Mar 23 #6

johnnyplankton

(520 posts)
3. I love Bernie and AOC...
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 05:12 PM
Mar 23

...but honestly, I don't know how we're getting out of this. The rule of law really doesn't exist anymore. I'm hoping mass protests will have an effect, but I fear what the response will be (even though I'll still show up).

Karasu

(978 posts)
6. Same. I appreciate the statement, but...as soon as I saw it, my response was, "But he already fucking has."
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 08:04 PM
Mar 23

So...now what?

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