What Bernie and AOC Have Figured Out

Photographs by Philip Cheung

Liberals are fed up. Although people on the left tend to blame President Donald Trump and Elon Musk for America’s downward spiral, plenty of even lifelong blue voters are frustrated with a Democratic Party they see as complacent. This much was clear from Saturday’s “Fighting Oligarchy” rally in downtown Los Angeles, where an estimated 36,000 people joined Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York in attacking apathy—even...