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 have to say I am very uncomfortable with you moderating this community and also participating in spreading partisan propaganda.
I feel like you are spreading misinformation, and that alone is a rule violation.
It’s not partisan propaganda to call out a fringe candidate for being a fringe candidate. As soon as West dropped out of the Green party, he became a fringe candidate.
But I’ll make you a deal… Forget winning. If West breaks 10% in any state Presidential election, I’ll donate $1,000 to the candidate of your choice. $100 a point. Seems fair, right?
it may be true that he is regarded by some as a fringe candidate, but the best propaganda **is** true.
you haven’t mollified me. i don’t know that there is anything you can say on the topic that would.