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.

  • Flying Squid
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    111 months ago

    Again, my “example” was to show how impossible it was.

    it may not be probable based on our current understanding

    Yes, I know, I already said you have religious faith.

    • HACKthePRISONS
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      011 months ago

      it’s not religious faith to doubt a claim for which there cannot be evidence. the claim it is impossible is one such claim.

      • Flying Squid
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        011 months ago

        You made a claim. You claimed Cornel West has a chance of winning. That is your religious faith.

        • HACKthePRISONS
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          111 months ago

          the claim is that it’s possible. and i’ve shown already that it is possible. as did you.

          • Flying Squid
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            011 months ago

            You have done no such thing.

            And, yet again, I showed that it was not possible. Stop claiming I did the opposite.

              • Flying Squid
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                111 months ago

                Okay, I won’t. If you want to lie, go for it.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    111 months ago

                    Fine. Show me claiming it is possible. Go for it. This should be interesting.