The independent senator spoke to crowds in the Midwest on his "fight oligarchy" tour to combat Elon Musk's DOGE efforts.

The Democratic Party may have twice stymied Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ White House ambitions, but the National Tour to Fight Oligarchy launched last month by the democratic socialist has been drawing crowds that would be the envy of any presidential campaign.

Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn. He's facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school's gym or two overflow rooms.