Fighting Oligarchy Tour Devolves Into Fueling Hypocrisy Express
26th April 2025
America’s two highest-profile socialists once had real Marxist street cred. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was a young barista who steamed her way into public service. Bernie Sanders is a U.S. senator from Vermont with a vaudeville-grade Brooklyn accent. Endearingly rumpled, he appeared to embody the phrase “living paycheck to paycheck.”
These two joined forces early. Their Grandpa-and-Granddaughter-of-Government-Overreach shtick was almost touching in an old-timey way—much like flipping through faded photos of Truman-era coal miners, sipping soup from lunch-pail Thermoses.
They’ve come a long way, baby!