Bernie Sanders and AOC Change Their Tune
Instead of talking about political reform or corporate greed, they have a simple, urgent message: Save democracy.
Emphasizing a new message.
Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images North AmericaBernie Sanders, the septuagenarian senator from Vermont who galvanized the American left in 2016, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 30-year-old first-term representative from New York who is building on the Sanders coalition, each made a powerful pitch in recent days to their millions of supporters.
Sanders delivered a formal speech at George Washington University. Ocasio-Cortez engaged in a livestream chat on Instagram that has been viewed, as of this writing, almost five million times. Their complementary messages went something like this: There can be no democratic socialism without democracy. And there will be no democracy in America if Joe Biden doesn’t win.