Bernie Sanders warns of 'extraordinary danger' facing U.S. under Trump at LA rally

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"I'm no longer talking about how we're moving to oligarchy," Sanders told the crowd. "I'm talking about how we are living today in an oligarchic form of society."

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The tone was starkly different at Sanders' rally earlier Saturday, which his team said was his largest yet with some 36,000 supporters in attendance. Musical icons Joan Baez and Neil Young were among the performers, in an event that lasted for over five hours.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., another leading Trump critic who has been joining Sanders on the tour, said at the rally that corporate interests and lobbyists have an outsize influence on modern American life, driving wealth inequality and making it increasingly challenging for workers to get by.

"The feeling of the water rising up to our throats, the impossibility to afford anything easily, the fear of speaking up, the deeply bitter and toxic division driven more by algorithms on social media than individual thought, the crumbling of our rights and protections," Ocasio-Cortez said, "understand that all of this is what it means and what it feels like to be governed by billionaires."

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https://www.npr.org/2025/04/13/nx-s1-5363702/bernie-sanders-warns-of-extraordinary-danger-facing-u-s-under-trump-at-la-rally