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 language of “legitimate candidate” implies there are illegitimate candidates. and that’s peak irony: i am continually told that this election means the end of democracy.
There are a whole host of illegitimate candidates. My favorite was a guy named Lyndon Larouche who was grade A insane, but he also had a major fanbase and was always running for President.
His main platform was that the primary enemy of the United States was England and that the Queen of England was a cocaine smuggler.
He regularly got about the same number of votes Cornel West will get.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
nothing about his candidacy is illegitimate, and votes cast for him were legitimate. to try to stop people from voting for him would be undemocratic.
cornel west is a legitimate candidate for president. he’s the only candidate i want to win this cycle, but i can still be won over again by jill stein. my vote for him would be a legitimate vote.
I recognize he’s the only candidate you WANT to win, but he’s polling less than just about anyone else. Even RFK is doing better than West and RFK is a nutball. You need to prepare yourself for the fact that he will likely drop out before you even get a chance to vote for him.
The winner in 2024, barring some sort of medical or legal event, will be Biden or Trump. A vote that takes away from one of them only helps the other.
good news: i’m not taking a vote away from biden. i voted for him once in 2008 and i learned my lesson.
You couldn’t have voted for Biden in 2008 because he dropped out of that race virtually instantly after he came in fifth place in Iowa with less than 1% of the vote. Even if you were in Iowa, you would have caucused for him, not voted for him.
I mean, I guess you could have voted for someone who dropped out, but there would be even less of a point in doing that.
he was on the ticket with obama.