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.

  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    6 months ago

    he can win if everyone who voted for Biden and everyone who voted for Trump votes for him. that’s just one scenario.

    you literally can’t have proof about the future and no matter how many times you repeat it, you won’t get any closer to knowing the future.

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      6 months ago

      Which can’t happen as long as the only state that has him on the ballot is Alaska.

      Weirdly, he has a better chance in Alaska than anywhere else because of the ranked choice balloting, but he still won’t win there either.