On the last Saturday, a group of Democrats in the arrangement and file, who stand in the mid -day sun in a football stadium in Toxon, Arizona, spoke about their frustration with their party.
“They are not ascending,” said a retired nurse named Mark Creel. “No, the spine, not the spine,” added. “They do not take their functions.” He was wearing a button that said, “Democrat is proud.”
This was shortly before the back, and thousands of people were in the process of submitting a security checkpoint to the field at Catalina High School. They were there at the latest station for the “oligarchy fighting” tour, a series of gatherings organized by Senator Bernie Sanders, which, in recent weeks, attracted attention to attracting large crowds: in a march in Denver the previous day, Sanders and the Congress muscle in New York Alexandrria Oscio Cortez was said to have been drawn one -third. (By comparison, the appearance of Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston, with Beyonce, was late, attracted about thirty thousand people; President Trump’s prior president had an election in material materials in Garden did not increase the imagination of approximately 20 thousand. Specified by social media. However, in Toxon, it seemed amazing that thousands of people (informed the organizers reported A crowd of twenty thousand) on Saturday to see three politicians outside the state-Sanders, OCASIO-Cortez, and Greg Casar, a member of the young Congress from Austin-who are not a campaign of emerging for the national campaign. I hear everything he says. “
Sanders started the tour in late February, starting from stopping in the Congressing areas in the Middle West where Republicans took out a narrow majority. This is not the first time that Senator has carried gatherings other than its season in 2017, during the first six months of Trump, Sanders occupied more than ten events that enhance progressive issues. In the speeches on this tour, his policy proposals have not changed much: Medicare for all, free tuition fees for university schools and commercial schools, building more affordable housing, and imposing taxes on the rich. Now, however, the mood was different. Since Trump, in cooperation with Elon Musk, began the efforts made to photograph the federal government, general political gatherings – in particular the appearance of Republicans in their original areas – have become flash points for angry citizens. In March, Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson encouraged Republican lawmakers to overcome the city halls to avoid confrontations with what the demonstrators were driven, and during the Congress holiday last week, many Republican legislators avoided open forums.
On March 14, after Sanders advanced and may try to fill the void left by the Republicans, the Democratic Party announced that it would retain a series of “popular city halls” in the Congress areas that the Republicans who consider it at risk. Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, and a loss in 2024, wounded the vice -president of the pioneer, visits to the Republican Party areas in Wisconsin and Iowa, and Roja, a member of the Congress in California, who includes his area with parts of the Gulf region, toured three red areas of his state. However, at a time when the Democratic Party’s approval classification is a historical decline, voters are competing for their discontent with their party as well. After the Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer supported a draft law for republican spending to prevent the government from closing, the public screams were spoken against him enough that he had postponed a plan for a planned book. The categories of rock preferences are not the only problem for the party: they also face a dark map of the Senate racing in 2026; Demographic crisis, with a decrease in the population of its strongholds; And the legislative deficit due to the conservative majority in the congressional councils and the Supreme Court.
Sanders, who was eighty -year -old, suggested to re -delivery until 2030, that this term may be the last, although he made papers for his candidacy in the Senate. He had arrived in Toxon on Saturday after a controversial week in Arizona. There was a protest against several hundred people outside Toxon Tesla, and they accused at a meeting at Scottsdale, Democratic Senate members, Mark Kelly and Robin Galigo, of not putting enough fighting against Republicans. In Chandler, in an event in which a member of the Republican Congress, Andy Bigz, appeared only for Republicans registered to attend, leaving these excluded to protest abroad. Instead, the demonstrators gathered abroad and danooh. Several hundreds of demonstrators also visited the office of actor Juan Sikmani, a Republican whose area includes parts of Toxon, for criticizing the lack of any general meetings at all.
But none of these gatherings did not attract the same attention, or the same crowds, as Sanders and his own guest, Okasio Cortez. The people who spoke to them appeared partially because Sanders are independent. “I don’t know if I am part of the party anymore-we really failed in several ways,” said Brendan Crole, twenty-eight-year-old, from Democrats. “They need to work on the correspondence, and they need to work to remove the old guard from the office and already allow the gradual wing of the party that represents people.” In the crowd, a doctor was summoned to attend a person who fainted at the temperature – the first several incidents of these incidents. He said that Crowley, who was wearing a practical wearing of the weather in Hodi the sun and a large-edge hat, was working as an art in HVAC-“merchant”. He wiped the crowd. “There are not many of us here.” I asked about his co -workers who support Trump. “They have grievances against the American economic situation. They feel they left behind, and they feel that their voices have not heard,” he said. “I have completely looked at the complete Democratic Party on them.”
“Nothing is supposed to happen,” said to me, Nikki Montanio Brown, who is forty -year -old. She was in gathering with her adult daughter. Brown lives in Toxon, where she worked as the box secretary in the grocery chain for twenty -five years. She said, “It was always a battle, but this is the biggest battle we have now subjected to my whole life.” “That’s it, no one helps us at all.”
The crowd was retroactively from the democratic memes that date back to 2016: I saw coconut; I saw goods from 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, and mothers ask for work shirts. If it is not a weather, it is possible that there will be a pussy hat. I asked one of the attendees, Trissy Wood, whether she believed that the gatherings have really accomplished anything. She said, “They are emotionally important.” “It raises you to know that this is many people who really care.”
“I wanted to hear the positive message after all the negativity that was happening,” another present told me, Matilda Martinez. She is from Navajo Clakai Dine’é and traveled to the gathering of her home on the SALT River Pima-MARICOPA Indian community. She expressed disappointment at Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffrez, the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives. She said, “They are not fighting for us.” “The only people I see are Yasmine Crocate” – a member of Congress from Texas – “AOC and Bernie Sanders”.
Shannon Hardenok wore a beige stones and a shirt he said, “He said” he said.The rulers rule America.She said, “We really took a dictatorship, which is really frightening time,” she said. She has expressed concern about the discounts in the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs – her husband is one of the old warriors who had a strike in painful minds during a training exercise before publishing the plan for Afghanistan in 2001. She was not angry with Democrats, though.
After the performance of the independent rock squad and an introduction from one of the late Raul Greva’s daughters-Greva was a member of the Democratic Congress long ago from Tukeson, who died on March 13-the main addresses of their letters. They stand in one of the lecturers, affixed to the “oligarchy fighting” mark, they collected one message: the government has been eliminated as a mortal by billionaires, and the only way to its decline is to unify the working class. “In the 1990s, the two barons, and Illon grabbed their day-took over our government, affected themselves, and caused the great depression,” said Kasar, who ascended in his post. “But people like you did not play dead.”
OCASIO-Cortez followed this speech with more. She said: “Donald Trump and contempt for the Republican Party of the Working Class not only comes from not being properly exciting.” “It is an abbreviation of the entire political agenda in the right -wing wing and a certain type of ugly policy that is at its core revolves around lying to Americans of the high and middle class.” “But there is a word for this type of things, Tuxon. You know that:” corruption. “
When Sanders moved to the stage, he stood between his youth, and put his arms around their shoulders like a proud uncle. He talked about “other Alexandria and Alexander” in America, pending the candidacy for positions. Sanders was warning of the increasing threat of oligarchy for years. Now, implicitly in his speech, he no longer needs to explain what the American people mean. In January, he said he had a seat in the front row of the inauguration in which the president led to the oath surrounded by Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Eileon Musk-the three richest men in America-with at least ten of the other billionaires that were formulated behind them.
“The truth is that in America now, the people at the top were never in the history of our country, it was good,” Sanders said. “These men literally do not know what to do with their money. They buy one palace, two palaces, not enough. They have five palaces. They want to wrap?
His fans erupted in high boxes. But it seems that both Sanders and Okasio Cortez admit that many Americans prefer an alliance with the richest person instead of their poorest, or fully lost faith in the idea of a government working. “What the Republicans do is that they are trying to make the working people like you and I feel that we are just one step outside this club, that if we work a little more, we may also be a billionaire,” said Okasio Cortez. “With the exception of these species of spoils, they were not gained, Tukeson. It has been stolen.”
Where does that frustrated progressive? After the gathering, Sanders spoke with correspondents in the high school gym. He looked tired but was not defeated. He said that for the latest events, the majority of the people who have already been in his campaign database were not already in his campaign database. It has been disposed of fears that the youth voted more conservative in the last elections than before, and returned to people’s opinions of the Democrats. “They see their position on Netanyahu’s support,” he said. “These young people cannot pay the rent. They earn horrific wages. The standard of living will be less than their parents.” They say, “Where are the Democrats?” After leaving Sanders, Kasar remained on. He acknowledged that everything that might go through a collective resistance to Trump’s second state policies was slower in achieving the president’s policies the first time. But he suggested that the gap within the Democratic Party was less between the right and the left than what he called “fighters and folders”, the latter is “the people who say,” well, the Democratic Party should not do much, and they only must fold them and allow the Republicans to bad. “But this plays a kind of political games,” where most people do not think of their lives as political sellers. ♦