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.

  • Philo
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    Do people still listen to the old birdie Bolshevik?

    • Cethin
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      5 months ago

      Lol. Some people still think communism or socialism is inherently bad.

      • Philo
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        no, some people know comrade birde is inherently badinsky.

        • Flying Squid
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          He’s not even a socialist. He’s literally said he isn’t a socialist. He’s a social democrat. You don’t even know the difference, do you?

        • Cethin
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          85 months ago

          For someone named for a philosopher, especially a philosopher who tried to create a system combining two disparate ideologies, this is a really shit take. You can’t come up with an actual reason other than “I know he’s bad.”

    • @Tremble
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      175 months ago

      Lol Bernie is barely to the left of center on the political scale

    • @[email protected]
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      Sanders’ name appears in a headline, and both centrist Democrats and Republicans start using identical talking points.