The expanding “rights” to federal freebies peddled by 2020 Democratic hopefuls and surrogates such as New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are perverting the Declaration of Independence and would create a whole new “deep state” of unaccountable bureaucrats, according to Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee.

In his latest book about the founding of the nation, the soft-spoken conservative Republican roared against top Democrats, accusing them of co-opting the language of America’s most important documents to pander to voters in patriotic tones.