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.

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      10 months ago

      Follow the logic… you need 270 electoral college votes to win. West is on the ballot in ONE state with a total of 3.

      It’s not that he won’t win, he quite literally CANNOT win.

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          10 months ago

          It’s mathematical proof. West is not on the ballot in enough states to win. It’s a fact from West’s own campaign site.

          Now, they could spend the next 10 months trying to get on the ballot in enough states to win, but that takes away from actual campaigning.