Bernie Sanders was quick to state the obvious during his Monday night appearance on The Late Show, succinctly telling Stephen Colbert that “it’s been a tough week.”
Above and beyond the incredible bigotry of the Trump campaign, what he did was he tapped into a lot of pain and anxiety and angst that the American people are feeling which is very rarely reported in the media or understood by the punditry….At the end of the Trump campaign Trump was posing as a hero of the working class of America. Now I happen not to believe him. I hope I’m wrong….
Hillary Clinton ended up with two million more votes than Donald Trump. So don’t think of this as a massive success for Trump. He lost the popular vote. Second of all, he comes into the White House as the least popular candidate in the history of this country.”
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Later, Saunders discusses what the worst case scenario of Trump’s presidency would look like:
The worst case, if not Trump himself, people around Trump are saying, ‘hmm, let’s see, we’ve got the House, the Senate, we’ve got the White House, we’re going to have the Supreme Court, we’re going to change the rules of the game so we don’t lose anymore.’ … They can make it worse by doing away with all campaign finance laws…and on top of that they will move forward more vigorously in voter suppression.
Making it harder for poor people, for old people, for people of color to actually vote. Put up all kinds of restrictions. You do those things -unleash billionaires to buy elections – make it hard for millions of people to participate, they think they can control this government indefinitely.”
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1EqualityUSA
Bern stayed in two months too long. He made Democrats spend money and scramble to catch up. Trump used Bern’s stupid ass words against Clinton. Bernie Sanders and the FBI are responsible for the porn stars occupying our White House. Thanks, Bernie. I never thought George W. Bush could look halfway decent. Go away!
Aromaeus
@1EqualityUSA: Oh shut it. HRC lost because she’s a horrible candidate whose wall street ties and record of flip-flopping finally did her in. The people were establishment politicians which is why Trump’s “outsider” shtick helped him do so well. Also your “goldwater girl” Hillary got less votes than a black man with a muslim sounding name. She inspired no one and even lost blue states that haven’t been red in decades. The election was decided the day the DNC and blue dog democrats chose Hillary to be the nominee.
Aromaeus
@1EqualityUSA: the people were tired of*
1EqualityUSA
Bern had decades to make his mark. This ass floated in on a pipe-dream and seekers followed him into the abyss. My hope is that the youngsters will see how much fun it is to be under a Republican trifecta.
Heywood Jablowme
@1EqualityUSA: Hillary’s #1 (maybe only?) argument vs. Bernie was “I’m more electable!” Which turned out to be not even true. I suspect Bernie could have won against Trump.
1EqualityUSA
Bern blew out of the meadow of a quaint state. He would have been slaughtered politically. He renamed two post offices. whoo.
Heywood Jablowme
Chris Mathews (of all people): “Trade, immigration and wars, I think [Trump] was on the popular side of… I never heard Hillary railing against these stupid wars, I never heard Hillary railing genuinely against these trade deals… I never heard her really come out with a comprehensive immigration program which included enforcement on illegal hiring.”
Bernie Sanders insisted on all of that, over and over.
Hussain-TheCanadian
The democratic party heads need to resign immediately; a new, young, truly lef*tists and progressives need to take over, and once more, attract, court, and go into the cities, towns, and neighborhoods of the working class.
Berni Sanders was shafted by the DNC; they knew they had a horrible candidate, a candidate that lost to junior new comer in 2008; I dont know what made them think she’ll win now. She didn’t, and heads at the DNC need to roll. I can’t believe many leftist and socia*lists are living under the tent of a party that embodies everything immoral and wrong with capi*talism.
I don’t think Trump is good for the people of the united states; I understand why people in the “rust belt” voted for him, but now is the chance of those who ally themselves with Berni and his brand of soc*ialism to take over the DNC, and defeat Trump and his truck of clowns in 2018 and 2020.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@1EqualityUSA: As much as I respect you Equality, you are wrong my friend. Berni sanders would have never lost Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. She lost because of her blatant support for the TTP, her blatant disregard for the american workers, this opened the door to a charlatan clown to swoop in and take those votes.
I’m only your neighbor to the north, and I can see how the American working class, raci*st, or not, is hurting, depleting, afraid, and tired. Trump won, because the DNC (heads, senators, house reps, pundits, analysts) wanted Clinton, because she guaranteed them jobs, and Berni would of unloaded their @sses out of the party.
Now we, the entire planet, has Trump – I don’t know if you went over his list of people he wants to place in sensitive posts, and holy sh*t it doesn’t look good.
1EqualityUSA
Hussain-TheCanadian, It’s a nightmare here, my friend. I’m going to go hiking. Love to Canada and you.
1EqualityUSA
Also know how close to the brink we were when Obama inherited the George W. Bush heap. It takes time to pull out of that kind of a mess.
ChrisK
@Aromaeus: That must be why Trump is picking the Former Goldman Sachs Banker Steven Mnuchin As the new Treasury Secretary. The one responsible for the last Recession. That’s as tied into Wallstreet as you can get.
SactoMan
@1EqualityUSA: Jesus Christ. Not this shite again. Eye rolls…
I supported both, she lost. If Bernie had run maybe he would have won, maybe he would have lost. But the Democratic Party would have a LOT more younger and activist members who vote supporting them. Maybe for life. They tossed that baby out with the bathwater.
ChrisK
@Heywood Jablowme: Talking to my Trump supporting family Bernie was respected. The hate for Hillary I don’t get but Bernie would’ve been the more electable candidate. Hindsight being 20/20 and all.
Poncho Sanchez
There was a radical contigent that supported Bern, but in a national election, he would only procure about 25% of the vote, cuz most Americans aren’t going to vote for a socialist, me included.
MarionPaige
I’ve been saying this for years now,
New York City Politics is the future of American Politics. In NYC,
there are so many factions and ethnic / cultural / religious groups that it is next to impossible for any politician to be liked by a majority of people. What does work in NYC to get politicians elected is aggregating a hate group. It is much easier to find something a majority of diverse people Hate than to get those diverse people to like you.
Hillary and her monochromatic Mao Suits were just no match for a hate group.
Kangol
Put Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court and let’s see what happens. Sounds like a party to me. Good times, good times!
Paco
Bernie would have been blocked at every turn by congress (Democrat or Republican) as President.
Of course, now the Republicans have free reign to steal from the poor and give to the rich as usual. All those blue collar idiots that have short memories and voted for Trump will be let down once again as their manufacturing jobs continue to flee the country. Those jobs will never come back until the GOP have successfully depressed American wages to Chinese sweatshop level wages. No amount of safety and environmental deregulation (Republican favorites) will change that fact in a global economy.
agoodusername
I love how this site, which had a pro-Hillary slant for months, is now reporting on what Bernie has to say. How fun.
Masc Pride
@agoodusername: IKR!
captainburrito
What Dems need to do is retake states and moderate and widen their appeal. Also stop opposing Bannon on his cabinet. When your enemy makes mistakes, you don’t advise him. Let him sabotage himself.
MediaGuy
The Clinton’s have had a lock on the party for years and they are the most out of touch, arrogant, self satisfied crooks, I mean, they stole the party. That’s why the dems lost. And, finally Hillary didn’t win the popular vote. There were 3 million illegal votes, all for Hillary (oh wait, except I voted for Trump twice, once in CT and once in NY), so, aside from my illegal vote, the rest of the 3 million illegally voted for Clinton, and no she didn’t win the popular vote. Besides, fu*ck her, she’s a dinosaur.
takingliberties
Hillary lost the election because she wears pantsuits and looks like a lesbian.
ChrisK
@MediaGuy: @takingliberties: So the only thing you got is she’s too old (younger then trump btw) and accusing her of being gay. She was right. You are deplorables.
Stilinski26
If only he was this outspoken when was cheated by the DNC but then again he accepted a big fat cheque from them.