Speech Writers Reveal The Secret Sauce That's Firing People Up For AOC And Bernie's Rallies
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It's a crazy plan, but zeroing in on "the oligarchy" just may work.
On the eve of summer tour season, the hottest ticket in town isn’t Lady Gaga or Beyoncé: it’s the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.
For the past month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have criss-crossed across western states, making the case that the system is broken, and President Donald Trump and his allies are only involved in government to enrich themselves.
Democrats ― directionless after their general election loss and reeling from everything Trump has accomplished in his first 100 days in office ― have come out in droves to hear what the progressive pair have to say: In Los Angeles, the crowd was 36,000 strong. In Denver, 34,000.
Crowds in red states and conservative bubbles have been surprisingly receptive to their message, too: In Salt Lake City, 20,000 squeezed into the area at the University of Utah. In Idaho,12,000-plus came out. Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders drew a three-mile long line at their rally in Folsom, California ― a place where the population reliably votes red.
“I heard ... that someone started flying a plane with a banner that said, ‘This is Trump country.’ It sure don’t look like it today,” Ocasio-Cortez said to the crowd of 30,000 people.
