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
              116·
              10 months ago

              If you were voting against Trump, you would be voting for the only person who has a chance to beat Trump. Otherwise you are voting for Trump. That’s how elections work.

                  • Pratai
                    41·
                    10 months ago

                    Dude, this guy is true to his user name. I’ve seen him across multiple posts in multiple communities essentially preaching to not vote for Biden. He’s a MAGA zombie at this point. An unwilling participant in ther propaganda campaign.

                • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
                  42·
                  10 months ago

                  No but it counts a vote away from another contender without hurting trump. This is the effect of FPTP voting. Essentially, if you have a vote, and you cast your vote for someone who cannot win, your vote is less useful than someone not voting at all. Voting against one candidate only hurts that candidate if the vote you cast won the election. Otherwise it was part of a split vote that helped them win.

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    22·
                    10 months ago

                    > Essentially, if you have a vote, and you cast your vote for someone who cannot win, your vote is less useful than someone not voting at all.

                    impossible. why are you trying to suppress voter turnout?

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    12·
                    10 months ago

                    the only other candidate i might want to win is jill stein, but i like cornel west ever-so-slightly more. is jill stein splitting the cornel west vote? no. there are people who she will persuade, there are people who he will persuade, and all those people are people who aren’t persuaded by the genocidal politicians we’ve already let try to run the country.