The Democratic Party’s left wing is responding to President Joe Biden’s strong words about the possibility of an American oligarchy with a combination of appreciation, bemusement and frustration

Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse rebuked Biden for giving the speech four years too late, adding he would've been reelected if he ran on it.

After outgoing US President Joe Biden recently warned Americans of the threat oligarchy poses for the country, a Fortune report found that the world's richest consolidated wealth and became $1.5 trillion richer in his term.

President Joe Biden, in his farewell address to the nation Wednesday, warned that American democracy is being threatened by a burgeoning oligarchy ... to the late Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire ...

Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., wrote on X ... According to the White House archives, Biden had not uttered the word “oligarchy” in the context of American politics until this week.