"That's the message we'll be hearing a lot in the coming weeks and months now that Democrats have successfully moved forward their effort to release the full investigation into former President Trump buddy Jeffrey Epstein. 'When you take a step back, you have a country where an elite governing class has gotten away with impunity, and shafted the working class in this country, shafted factory towns, shafted rural communities,' Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) told me Wednesday."
"How appropriately strange for these days would it be if Epstein, who faced sex trafficking charges at the time of his death, provided the uniting message Democrats have been searching for? 'Epstein and economics' sounds like a stretch on the surface, but it is increasingly clear that Americans of all political stripes are tired of the rich getting richer, and bolder. The Epstein files are the bipartisan embodiment of that discontent. Our collective frustration with what can appear only as a cover-up to benefit the wealthy and powerful is an unexpected bit of glue that binds regular Americans, because the corruption and hubris of our oligarchy is increasingly undeniable and galling."
Democrats advanced a push to release the full government investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, aiming to expose an elite governing class accused of operating with impunity. Representative Ro Khanna says an elite governing class has shafted the working class, factory towns, and rural communities. The Epstein files offer a rare bipartisan focus for anger over wealthy individuals growing richer and bolder. Many Americans across political lines view the case as a symbol of cover-ups that benefit the wealthy and powerful, reinforcing perceptions of corruption and hubris within an oligarchy. Democrats hope disclosure can translate scandal anger into demands for accountability and economic change.
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