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This is where some creative political jujitsu can set Democratic constituencies against each other. For example, provide for a bailout that requires any participating state to sell off all publicly owned utility systems and put a large share of the proceeds into public pension fund obligations. Then raid the over-stuffed endowments of the Ivy League for additional funds. Be blunt that the goal is wealth redistribution from the Ivy League to save the pensions of ordinary people. Even if Bernie Sanders resisted, his supporters would find such proposals to be political catnip. Act surprised that any Ivy League university might oppose such measures.

Let's re-enact the so-called "Windfall Profits Tax" used against the energy companies, but this time against Silicon Valley.

And by that, I mean the oligarch's fortunes, personally.

I'm sure the Ivy League Lawyers -- threatened that the endowments of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. would be summarily seized by the government otherwise -- can find a way to get around the explicit Constitutional prohibition on "bills of attainder"...just like they ensconced a mere penumbra into the inviolate right of abortion, and eliminated the "Shall not be infringed" part of the 2nd amendment.

Also, expose the fact that the Democrats' union backers have been stealing their members' pension funds for the past seven decades or so, with assistance from crooks like Harry Reid:

Since then Reid has received contributions from various donors connected with the gambling industry, including. . .Ed and Fred Doumani, associated with the Tropicana Hotel, the El Morocco casino, Agosto, and Joey Cusumano, former lieutenant of Chicago Mafia representative Anthony Spilotro; Agosto’s infiltration of the Tropicana was facilitated in 1975 when the Chicago and Kansas City Mafia families conspired to block a Teamsters Central States Pension Fund loan to the Doumanis; when Argent Corporation’s gambling license was revoked in 1979 Argent initially agreed to sell its holdings to the Doumanis; later in 1983 the Doumanis loaned funds to the now-bankrupt Agosto. . .--Kirk Kerkorian, owner at various times of Caesar’s Palace (built with financing from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund), the Flamingo Hotel (sold in 1970 to the Hilton Hotels Corporation, partly financed in the 1940s by Henry Crown, who also financed Chicago mob associate Jacob Arvey, and later associated with mob lawyer Sidney Korshak), and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (built on the heels of Kerkorian’s acquisition of controlling MGM shares from Edgar Bronfman, son of Lansky bootlegging associate Samuel Bronfman; Bronfman’s son Edgar Jr. has also been a Reid contributor). . .