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.
> The only way he has a chance is if both Biden and Trump die and the Democrats and Republicans both say, “never mind, we’re sitting out this election.”
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Interesting how you left out the polar bear part. That seems kind of dishonest of you.
you didn’t ask me for your caveats. i showed your claim, as you asked.
Yes, I know you dishonestly made it look like I was making a claim I didn’t make by selectively quoting what I said. That’s what religious people do.
you said, and meant, exactly what i quoted.
Ah yes. Insisting that something says something to bolster your claim when intentionally taken out of context. Another thing religious people do.
it’s not out of context, and your repeated claims about religiousness makes me think you doth protest too much.
Of course it’s out of context. You didn’t quote the whole post. That is literally taking something out of the context in which it was written. What an incredibly silly thing to say.
this is a pretty dishonest claim. anyone who reads this conversation will understand exactly what is happening.
calling me silly doesn’t bolster your claim