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What AOC and Bernie Sanders get wrong about the oligarchy

What are Bernie Sanders and AOC actually fighting against?

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been packing arenas on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, but Matt Yglesias doesn’t think the oligarchy is real. Jerusalem Demsas is more sympathetic: donors really do get access that regular people can’t, and the discomfort with that is about democracy, not policy outcomes. But the discourse frustrates her…

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