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As Trump Chalks Up Big Wins for the American People, Democrats Hail Bernie Sanders as ‘Fresh’
The left is desperate and now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War
By Katy Grimes, April 14, 2025 2:45 am
The madness coming from the left is palpable, and is illustrative of desperation. A recent report found that the Left is now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War.
CNN claims that Senator Bernie Sanders’ message of resistance finds fresh life as he tours blue states on his “Fight Oligachy” tour.
The left is turning to Bernie Sanders to save them? Bernie Sanders is “fresh life?” Even New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who joined Sanders at recent events, isn’t “fresh life” any longer. CNN says “the pair protested Trump, his Department of Government Efficiency led by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk and what Sanders has described as rising authoritarianism under the current administration.”

Bernie Sanders claims “rising authoritarianism” under the Trump administration. Think about that for a moment.
Sanders and his ilk are the people who shipped your manufacturing jobs to China, gutted the middle class and America’s Heartland, fomented the green climate grift, spawned endless wars, groomed and then transitioned your children, censored media voices who questioned or exposed their tactics, forced unnecessary vaccinations on you and your children in order to return to work and school – after locking you down in your home to “flatten the curve,” unleashed millions of illegal immigrants, cartels and violent gangs into the U.S., increased taxes on everything, and propped up the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the Administrative state, and the National Security State.
They are calling President Donald Trump authoritarian?
How authoritarian is it of President Trump to propose to eliminate income tax on those making less than $150,000? Or to rescind outdated regulations to unleash American innovation and energy production? Or to revitalize the defense industrial base at home? Or to lift burdensome EPA restrictions on coal plants? Or increase U.S. domestic timber production and streamline federal policies to enhance forest management, reduce wildfire risks, and decrease reliance on imported timber?
“That Sanders – a self-described democratic socialist who has never been a Democrat – has once again emerged as a leader of the anti-Trump opposition speaks to some of the branding challenges facing the Democratic Party, whose approval ratings as a party have been underwater,” CNN reports. “The Vermont senator told the New York Times last month that one of the goals of his tour was to encourage people to run for office – as independents.”
Faking your registration in a political party is fraudulent, and never done for legitimate reasons.
‘Nobody should live in fear’: S.F. People’s March seeks unity against Trump – Saturday’s San Francisco Chronicle headline says.
What are they living in fear of? “The administration of President Donald Trump issues executive orders that have sought to dismantle gender-affirming care and ban trans people from serving in the military.”
There’s no real medical procedure of “gender-affirming care,” as it really is chemical castration, which is permanent, or full surgery to remove or add genitals for the opposite sex. That’s not medical care, and it certainly isn’t “gender affirming.”
Trans people serving in the military compromise any mission. “Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life,” the order says in its “purpose” section. “A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member,” military.com reports. Beautifully said.
“Hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday to march from San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza to City Hall in a demonstration against fascism and in support of democracy. The annual event, launched in 2020 to unite people in solidarity with LGBTQ communities, took on added urgency this year amid a rise in attacks targeting trans individuals and other members of the LGBTQ community.”
What attacks on the LGBTQ community? What attacks on trans people?
Never mind the vile attacks against Jewish children in elementary, middle and high schools, and universities. Actual attacks on Jewish kids don’t get reported by CNN and the SF Chronicle.
Trump isn’t attacking anyone. Trump doesn’t want more wars, he wants government lean, efficient, and accountable, and wants merit based education and job requirements, and wants to return wealth back to the middle and working classes.
While mainstream and Trump-hating media shriek about the “unstable” stock market, Trump’s tariffs are working. As Benny Johnson reported, the US Stock market added $4 TRILLION in ten minutes on Friday.
And, more than 70 countries are waiting in line to strike trade deals with the US.
What many miss about tariffs only focusing on the costs of products going up is that the consumer won’t buy many products if manufacturers attempt to pass the cost of the tariff on the product. Not every tariff can be passed to the consumer – it’s supply and demand. And that is the purpose – to get the manufacturers’ countries to back off their unfair tariffs.
The President reported that the United States has run a trade deficit of goods every year since 1975. In 2024, our trade deficit in goods exceeded $1 trillion.
Where exactly is the fascism in the Trump administration?
“In the last few decades, globalization and a shift in economic investment from manufacturing to knowledge sectors resulted in job loss and stagnant wages for most workers,” the social-democratic magazine Nation reported in January. So they know what has happened but did nothing about correcting it?
It was the Biden Administration that racked up trillions in unaccountable debt, which the Department of Government Efficiency found and has been working on eliminating:
- The U.S. Treasury couldn’t account for $4.7 trillion in payments
- Medicare sent $2.7 trillion overseas to people who weren’t even eligible
- The Pentagon lost track of $2.5 trillion
- The Social Security Administration was sending $100 billion a year to people with no verifiable identity
- The U.S. Department of Education spent $50 billion a year pushing gender ideology on children.
- USAID spent another $50 billion exporting that gender ideology worldwide
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE experts got rid of all of these fraudulent expenditures in only 3 weeks. And yes, that is fraud.
In Mid-March, President Trump targeted some of former President Joe Biden’s most damaging executive orders and policies, including:
- Rescinding Biden’s executive action that elevated radical gender ideology in U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid.
- Eliminating Biden’s use of the Defense Production Act to push his Green New Scam, including mandates for electric heat pumps and solar panels.
- Repealing Biden’s executive order forcing radical labor policies and apprenticeship mandates onto American businesses and government agencies.
- Removing Biden’s directive to prioritize union-driven policies that imposed unnecessary regulations on industries.
- Revoking Biden executive order that funneled Federal resources into radical biotech and biomanufacturing initiatives under the guise of environmental policy. [emphasis the Globe]
Reducing federal government overreach is not fascism, nor is it authoritarian. As President Trump explains repeatedly, the purpose is to “enhance accountability, reduce waste, and promote innovation.”
And in the meantime, President Trump is shutting off the waste and fraud spigot that many in government were enjoying.
Trump eliminated unnecessary governmental entities including the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, United States Agency for Global Media, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Institute of Museum and Library Services, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and Minority Business Development Agency.
Cutting these governmental entities will save taxpayer dollars, reduce unnecessary government spending, and streamline government priorities.
Is this what Bernie Sanders, AOC and radical Democrats are “resisting” – reducing unnecessary government spending? They may want to run that by voters first, since their constituents are paying for Biden’s trillions in debt.
Interestingly, there are Democrats who think Bernie’s “fresh life” isn’t so fresh, as CNN reported:
Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic think tank, said that while Sanders’ rallies are popular with his base, they’re not resonating with the voters Democrats need to win back, particularly people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but backed Trump in 2024.
Those voters won’t respond to a message centered on “fighting the oligarchy and blaming billionaires,” he said, arguing that Sanders is reinforcing a perception that Democrats don’t understand or share the concerns of those voters.
“He’s a hammer and everything’s a nail, and so the cure for everything is going after wealthy people. That just isn’t what the working class is demanding,” Bennett said. “They’re not mad at Elon Musk because he’s wealthy. They’re mad at him because he’s destroying things they don’t want broken in government.”
Notably, Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was photographed flying first-class to a Bernie Sanders event last month — with critics saying it shows how she battles inequality one “mimosa at a time.” NY Post reporter Katie Donlevy shares this story. An incredulous passenger snapped AOC (D-NY) getting comfy in the roomy first-class cabin of JetBlue Flight 511 on March 19 that departed from JFK Airport in Queens for Las Vegas, where she spoke at a Sanders rally titled “Fighting Oligarchy.”
Donald Trump has a pro-growth agenda, and the left hates him for it because he exposed their incompetence and fraud while making America great again.
You can’t make sense of it. Oligarchy? Authoritarianism? Justice? The Trump administration is worried? Is Bernie running for President again, or passing the mantle to AOC? Is she electable? Is he way too old? Why are they still hanging on to the Trans issue? The last election was an emphatic rejection of progressive ideas. What are they doing?
This tour by Sanders should be looked at a few ways. First it’s obviously a desperate attempt to resurrect hard left thinking in this country. Second no one should be dismissing how an old fossil like Bernie Sanders still resonates with young people. Back in the 2016 presidential campaign Donald Trump’s rallies had upwards of 30,000 or more but Bernie Sanders rallies rivaled those numbers which should have been a MAJOR RED FLAG to voters. Why did Sanders have such a strong appeal? The answer is public education which has been poisoning our children for decades with hard left propaganda, this brain washing which includes hating your parents, your country and yourself, the sickness seems to have no end. The worst is convincing young people that if you hate your gender that you should have “ Gender Re-Assignment Surgery “. The blatant lie of this mutilation surgery is that gender is transplantable. The hard reality is medical science doesn’t have the technology to change a person’s gender. This is how far we’ve fallen as a society to not only allow this kind of horror but actually celebrate this as some sort of liberation. If President Trump is successful by eliminating the so called dept. of education I hope he and his administration expose this nightmare for what it is.
In a failed and pathetic attempt to project relevancy near the end of his life Sanders is looking blindly past the fact that the Democratic Party brutalized him and threw him under the bus both times he ran for president. Also missing in the reporting of these cringe-worthy “rallies” is the fact that Sanders was always opposed to the trade agreements that sent our manufacturing overseas, which continues to destroy the middle class. Trump is trying to undue those destructive policies that Sanders hated and now Sanders is jumping on the Democrat “Trump is a threat to democracy” bandwagon???
Not that these people care, but for the record:
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
Isaiah 5:20
This moldy, senile old communist as fresh! Too funny!
Someone please make an AI video of comrade Bernie as the “Fresh prince of Beijing”.
b sanders IS the oligarch your daddy-mommy warned u about……
I think one should dig into Bernie’s acquired riches while earning a public servant salary!
It is a sleight of hand trick, “don’t look at what I am holding, look at the bad orange man…”
I would bet money that Bernie and his gal pal the “brilliant” AOC are being supported by astroturf CCP operatives. The Dailey Caller is beginning to connect the dots.
https://discernreport.com/anti-trump-resistance-leaders-campaign-bankrolled-by-dem-power-broker-tied-to-chinese-intel-agency/
If you could reason with democrats, there wouldn’t be any.
“As Trump Chalks Up Big Wins for the American People”. Yes there are a lot of things in the works and we appear to headed in the right direction, but the only successes are the use of plastic straws and higher flow shower heads. The massive fraud in SS from dead people hasn’t really been proven yet. (I wish it were.) Did I mention that I was retired and got my butt kicked in the stock market during the last couple weeks.
If you can avoid selling the recently reduced in value stocks you will be okay. The real loss comes at the sale of the stock. Corrections come and go but over time the market always goes back up. This time won’t be any different. Until the battle of wits is over with Europe and China the market will be in a state of flux. On the positive side you should see no tax on your social security come out of the budget reconciliation if you are in that tax bracket that taxes your social security. It will also be interesting to see if there is a DOGE rebate that is given to taxpayers? Here in California, I would like to see the elimination of all taxes and public purpose charges on gas, electricity, natural gas and water. We would see money in our pockets and a reduction on the price of everything if that were to happen.
Here’s what your attention is being drawn away from.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-04-12/warning-us-approaching-funding-crisis
Bernie is about as fresh as a 1960s trotskyist dog turd, and someone needs to teach him how to comb his hair with a brush instead of a balloon.
Bernie Sander’s Campaign expenditures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show the Bernie Sanders spent $221,723 chartering private jets during the first quarter of 2025, with the first payment coming just days before the launch of his tour in February on his nationwide “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” to rail against billionaires and supposed “oligarchs” like Elon Musk—while traveling like an oligarch himself.
(https://freebeacon.com/politics/bernie-spent-221k-on-private-jets-while-railing-against-trump-during-fighting-oligarchy-tour/)
Big Wins? Your pieces are not usually this breathlessly sycophantic. We’ve seen a few minor moves in the right direction, generally if not more than offset by the aimless chaos introduced into our government by people chosen based solely on loyalty rather than competence. Just as their ideology blinded liberals to the folly of the last administration and the obvious cognitive challenges of its leader, this piece does exactly the same from the opposite side. But there aren’t a lot of journalistic outlets that take a clear view of things anymore so it is left to the reader to separate the news from the opinion.