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.
Oh, legally he wouldn’t be prevented from running, he’s still older than 35 and a natural born citizen, it’s just going to be super hard for any well respected member of academic intelligencia to run when they’re being held in a Trumpian gulag somewhere.
See the Navalny situation in Russia, that’s what Trump DREAMS of doing here. His hero Putin does it so why not him?
“we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left”
He wants an American Cultural Revolution, and that will not end well for anyone to his left.
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“we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left”
Do you not think West is part of the “radical Left”? Because I guarantee Trump thinks that. What do you think he means by “rescue the country”? It’s not going to be through good leadership.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/trump-extreme-rhetoric-analysis/index.html
“We will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country,” Trump said, using the demagogic technique of dehumanizing his opponents. He warned that “the real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day.”
They’ve already started with their attacks on the Presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT.
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See, we can agree on something! :) I’ll go you one further… The Patriot Act that Biden dreamed up following the FIRST attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was re-tooled into the Patriot Act we know now was, and is, a nightmare with no useful purpose.
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/27/biden-september-11-patriot-act/
Even that will be better than what Trump is proposing.
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I’m quoting the person who wants to be the Republican nominee. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
"‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’”
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That he wants to be a dictator on day one? He sure is. Now name another one day Dictator. :)