Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rallied thousands of supporters at an event in Arizona last night against efforts by the Trump administration and Elon Musk to reshape the federal government. Take a look.

If any Republican wants to vote their conscience, and if any Republican in the House

of the citizens, you know, maybe it's not a good idea to give a trillion dollars in tax

rates to the 1% and then cut Medicaid, education, and nutrition. If that person would

stand up and say, I have a problem with that. Do you know what Mussel would do?

Musk in five minutes would say, we are going to primary you, your political life is over.

That is not democracy.

And our fight is to make sure that we remain a democracy. One person, one vote, not billionaires, five.

We are witnessing an oligarchy in America.

And that is when those with the most economic, political, and technological power

destroy the public good to enrich themselves while millions of Americans pay the price.

And we are at a point where the wealthiest people in the world, like Elon Musk, and all the

Republicans enabling him, are turning to loot what is left of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security to bankroll even deeper

tax cuts and sweetheart contracts for themselves, their fellow billionaires, and their corporations.

But I am struck by though, and you see it from time to time in American politics, where the people are considered to be on the far left, and the people who are considered to be on the far right, are saying the same thing.

When they're talking about technocrats, Silicon Valley, billionaires, oligarchs, AOC is saying a lot of what sort of the Steve

Bannon wing of MAGA is saying. Like if you hear Steve Bannon, we've talked about this,

if you hear Steve Bannon talking,'ve talked about this, if you hear Steve Bannon talking,

he will talk about the threat of the billionaires, the threat of the tax cuts, the threat of the

technocrats, the threat of, well, a lot of what your father was talking about 30 years ago.

And it is amazing how like this sort of populist strain comes together at the end of both

political spectrum.

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