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.
i think what you, and all those who have been lying about this, mean is that it doesn’t help the only candidate who (you believe) can win.
well, if he wanted my vote, he’d try to get it.
He’s been trying to get your vote for 4 years by being the opposite of Trump.
he didn’t do a very good job of that, what with running the concentration camps and building a border wall. and that’s not what i want out of a president anyway.
i want them to dismantle the empire. that’s what cornel west is promising to do.
LOL - good luck with that.