The Democratic Party has chosen “oligarchy” as its new talking point against the GOP. It is a bizarre choice, given that Democrats have already chosen oligarchy as a strategy for their own party.

The oligarchy talking point spawned from President Donald Trump’s political alliance with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk was a big booster of Trump’s campaign and has since become a special government employee. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has led the cuts to wasteful government spending. Former President Joe Biden, upon leaving office, warned that an “oligarchy is taking shape in America,” and liberal media have tripped over themselves to compare Trump and Musk to Russia’s oligarchs.

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This reached a fever pitch with the Wisconsin Supreme Court elections. Musk spent at least $3 million on the race, which became the most expensive U.S. court race in history. The GOP-backed candidate lost, which led Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the failed 2024 vice presidential candidate, to declare that “the oligarchs lost” in the Democratic Party’s victory lap.

Look on the other side of that election spending, though, and you will see the Democratic Party’s own oligarchs came out to play as well. Billionaire George Soros and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) combined to spend $3.5 million on the race. Pritzker is the wealthiest politician in the country, the “heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune,” with an estimated net worth of $3.5 billion. Pritzker spent a combined $323 million on his two runs for governor. He even boasted at the 2024 Democratic National Convention of being an “actual billionaire” compared to Trump and has tried to position himself as a national leader in the party and a possible presidential candidate.

Illinois’s oligarch governor doesn’t compare to the scope of Soros’s spending over the years. Soros may have been the most destructive spending force in politics over the past decade, funneling millions of dollars into local district attorney elections to try and alter the criminal justice system fundamentally. Left-wing Politico in 2016 called Soros’s spending a “quiet overhaul of the U.S. justice system.” Left-wing New York Magazine made sure to let everyone know that Democrats should be supportive of this particular oligarch, writing that same year that “Soros is Buying America a Less Racist Justice System.”

Soros spent at least $40 million to get about 70 “prosecutors” elected. Those candidates were glorified defense attorneys who adhered to Soros’s pro-criminal worldview that criminals are victims of a racist justice system and that they should be kept out of prison at all costs. Soros’s funding made up 90% of campaign funding for some of those candidates, who were flush with cash compared to the real prosecutors against whom they were running.

Soros’s spending wasn’t limited to district attorney races, either. As Gabe Kaminsky wrote for the Washington Examiner, “Soros’s Open Society Foundations is a sprawling grantmaking network that disburses over $1 billion to left-wing causes as its founder bankrolls the Democratic Party.” Soros was the largest donor of the 2022 midterm elections, spending $120 million to get various Democrats elected.

After that, the now 94-year-old Soros passed control of his political operation to his son, Alex. The 39-year-old described himself as “more political” than his father and, in 2024, upped the spending to the Senate Majority PAC, House Majority PAC, and Future Forward PAC (the largest super PAC in the cycle, which was focused on backing then-Vice President Kamala Harris). Alex Soros made about 25 visits to the Biden White House from October 2021 to May 2024, and he met with prominent Democrats, including Walz, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

In addition to the pro-crime district attorneys and the influence over Democratic politicians, the Soros family has contributed to the racial divisions promoted by left-wing narratives. The Soros contribution list includes Black PAC, Black Voters Matter Action PAC, Black Men Vote PAC, Color of Change PAC, and AAPI Victory Fund. That is another thing worth remembering when Democrats claim that Musk is some kind of divisive oligarchic figure.

Then, there is Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and another of the Democratic Party’s major “oligarchs.” Omidyar has been funding several progressive groups that are pushing corporate boycotts against Musk’s companies. Omidyar’s Democracy Fund has funneled millions to groups associated with Marc Elias, the Democratic election lawyer who tries to use the legal system to overturn fair elections that Democrats lose, including most recently, the 2024 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania. Democracy Fund is also helping fund the new Governors Safeguarding Democracy, co-chaired by Pritzker.

Omidyar has also contributed funding to liberal “disinformation” efforts designed to undermine and deplatform conservative media outlets, including the “Trust Project” and the Global Disinformation Index, the latter of which blacklisted the Washington Examiner, among other outlets, to advertisers.

While Musk’s political ventures are out in the open for all to see, Democratic megadonors benefit from the liberal dark money system that has been built up for decades. “Dark money” is another of the talking points that Democrats are hypocrites on, with federal records showing Harris was backed by dark money groups eight times more than Trump was in 2024. Senate Majority PAC, aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), raked in $81 million from 2021 to 2023 from dark money nonprofit Majority Forward.

What Musk has in money he lacks in the experience of the Democratic Party’s oligarchs, who have ingrained themselves into the party’s activist infrastructure and whose influence reaches from the top of the party all the way down to local elections, as the Soros family has proven. None of this even accounts for the party’s other wealthy narrative setters. That includes the university bureaucrats and presidents making six- and seven-figures whose takeover of higher education is only now being addressed by Republicans, and the millionaire Hollywood celebrities who used their cultural (and financial) influence in the party to get themselves carve-outs from California’s COVID and environmental restrictions.

And let’s not forget public sector unions that control the Democratic Party in states like California, Illinois, and New Jersey. These union leaders make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while ruling over vast fiefdoms financed by taxpayer dollars. They control not just the pay and hiring of most government workers but also set policies in areas such as education, transportation, and energy. Voters trapped in these Democratic Party jurisdictions have no voice in how government unions run their monopolies. Their only recourse is to pick up stakes and move out of the state entirely. And many are doing exactly that.

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The Democratic Party’s oligarchs aren’t going away any time soon, either. If Alex Soros is anything like his father, he will be around for another 50 or more years, and he has already cemented himself as a key figure among today’s Democratic politicians. Pritzker has tried to insert himself in national politics, likely to set himself up to run for president in 2028 or beyond. They have a track record far longer than Musk with much more success, given Musk’s grand efforts in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race couldn’t secure a win. George Soros altering the criminal justice system in about 70 American cities seems to be a case of an oligarch having far more control over American politics than Musk’s electoral efforts.

As is the case with most things, Democrats do not have a problem with “oligarchs,” only with oligarchs who do not help push their agenda forward. The Democratic Party’s messaging, as always, requires you to forget that it is as guilty of the very thing it is accusing Republicans of and has been guilty of it for far longer.