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, …

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.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 个月前

        I gave a scenario which I think is basically impossible. I think you know that. And I’ll justify my impossible claim when you justify your impossible claim. At least I admit mine is impossible.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            22·
            11 个月前

            The flaw is that most people who run for president have no chance of getting elected. Including Cornel West and literally every other person who is not a Democrat or a Republican for over a century.

            • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
              21·
              11 个月前

              you say the have no chance, but that’s not true, as illustrated in your own example. it may not be probable based on our current understanding, but it’s not impossible, and the fact that he is running makes it more probable than if he weren’t.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                21·
                11 个月前

                Again, my “example” was to show how impossible it was.

                it may not be probable based on our current understanding

                Yes, I know, I already said you have religious faith.

                • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                  11·
                  11 个月前

                  it’s not religious faith to doubt a claim for which there cannot be evidence. the claim it is impossible is one such claim.