Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the reelection of former President Trump would be the “end of democracy” in an interview released Saturday by The Guardian.
“It will be the end of democracy, functional democracy,” Sanders said in the interview.
The Vermont senator also said in the interview that he thinks that another round of Trump as the president will be a lot more extreme than the first.
“He’s made that clear,” Sanders said. “There’s a lot of personal bitterness, he’s a bitter man, having gone through four indictments, humiliated, he’s going to take it out on his enemies. We’ve got to explain to the American people what that means to them — what the collapse of American democracy will mean to all of us.”
Sanders’s words echo those President Biden made in a recent campaign speech during which he said that Trump’s return to the presidency would risk American democracy. The president highlighted the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in an attempt to cement a point about Trump and other Republicans espousing a kind of extremism that was seen by the world on that day.
You didn’t answer the question though.
Do you think democracy in the US is the same today as it was 8 years ago?
And do you think that if Trump wins the election, democracy in the US will be the same 4 years from now as it is today?
Nope, but hard to blame that all on one party. Democrats are useless, too. The GOP is worse. Both put up the worst possible candidates, and each new president spends their time undermining the work of their predecessor. Neither give a shit about doing what’s best for their citizens. Democracy is fucked here regardless.
So it’s not alarmist then. It’s an accurate take.