Behind Sanders and AOC’s Oligarchy Crusade: Billionaires Pull the Strings

Sanders and AOC’s paradox of an oligarchy crusade powered by the 1%’s money.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

~ God in the Dock, C.S. Lewis

For the last ten years, we’ve been drowning in the words 'dictator,' 'fascist,' and 'threat to democracy,' parroted by Democrats like a nationwide game of Telephone on Xanax. The legacy media amplified these cries, droning on about the 'end of democracy' like a swarm of buzzing drones across the United States.

These terms, though distinct, share a common thread, rolling effortlessly off the tongues of Democrats, progressives, leftists, and neo-cons for years. Yet weirdly enough, the end that they warned us of never came, and the American voter became tired, and the "warnings" became noise.

By late 2024, the Harris campaign dropped its veiled warnings about a Trump presidency (like 'dictator on day one') and opted to 'speak their truth,' banking on enough Americans buying it to tip the election her way. Trump was no longer going to be just a dictator on day one; now, he was essentially the incarnation of Hitler, not to mention repeating false claims about Trump’s past statements. (Read those here)

Harris stepped out from the Naval Observatory, took the podium with the vice presidential seal, and warned America of Trump’s supposed Hitler admiration. Her evidence? Reports from The New York Times and The Atlantic - penned by Jeffrey Goldberg (IYKYK) - citing John Kelly, Trump’s ex-chief of staff with a bitter 2019 exit and a clear axe to grind. Kelly claimed Trump praised Hitler and envied his generals (conveniently timed just weeks before the election) but his story didn’t hold up under scrutiny. Key players from Trump’s orbit, like Kash Patel and Nick Ayers, former chief of staff to Mike Pence, flat-out debunked it, insisting they never heard such remarks, while even a spokesman for Mark Meadows called it nonsense. Trump himself dismissed Kelly as a bitter "degenerate" spinning tales out of spite, and the whole thing reeked of a last-ditch Harris campaign Hail Mary.

Just three months later, Obama attended Jimmy Carter's funeral (without Michelle Obama) and was seen joking and laughing with the "Hitlerian" Trump after his presidential win.

All that energy wailing about dictatorship, fascism, authoritarianism, democracy’s doom, and finally, Hitler? Wasted, capped by a crushing defeat. The country as a whole shifted significantly right. Even Democrat strongholds like California, New York, and Illinois shifted right, up to 9 points. Trump won every swing state, and for the first time since George W. Bush in 2004, a Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote.

Since the election, the Democratic party has been wandering without a leader or agenda, though they excel at gathering around a cause or finding unity in something or someone they hate. Their decade-long campaign against Trump has failed. While they still hate him, they recognize that Americans are fatigued with the droning cries of "threat to our democracy" and have moved on to a new boogeyman: billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, their poster child for the "oligarchy."