Bernie Sanders goes to the Republican House District’s to rally AGAINST Trump/Musk….

From Common Dreams….

After addressing more than 3,400 Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, Iowa residents that “Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the D.C. Beltway.”https://www.commondreams.org

“For better or worse, that is not going to happen,” said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the working class Americans who would benefit most from Sanders’ ideas.

“It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that low-income and working Americans desperately need, no to huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country,” said Sanders.

The senator announced his tour earlier this month as Elon Musk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency( DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president’s campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk’s push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump’s extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same corporations and ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law….

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Jeremy Slevin, a senior adviser to Sanders, reported that in Iowa City, the senator gave “not one, not two, but three different speeches to overflow crowds,” with 2,000 people lining up to see him speak “on a freezing cold day in a Republican district.”

Pointing to the enthusiasm shown in Nebraska and Iowa, Sanders supporters questioned the idea, reportedly embraced by Democratic consultants and politicians, that “Americans don’t understand the word oligarchy.”