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.
Voting for someone who (in their minds) can win the general election, as opposed to voting for someone who (in their minds) will lose to Trump, is advancing leftist interests.
Would you disagree with that?
Wait… wait. I worry what you just heard was: (Something else). What I said was: Would you disagree with that exact statement?
Some of the people I’m thinking of have volunteered with the Democrats on behalf of were-too-leftist-to-get-elected candidates. And again, they’d vote for your candidate in the general election, because once the field is narrowed to two choices despite their efforts to advance a more leftist choice, they’d rather have the better option over the worse one, and they’re responsible enough to try for the better of the remaining options (and then go back to working for something better than that in the future).
Sounds to me like you’re fighting against them.