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.

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    6 months ago

    The people who are the ones who complain with:

    Stop talking about “BOTH SIDES” like they are equally evil

    seem to be die hard Democrats. I do agree with them that there is definitely is an issue where the “non-Republican” vote is split into many sections. This leads to the issue where the Democrats are mad at other non-Republicans for “splitting the vote” and causing their party a tough time.

    Lately, all Democrats do is cry about Trump while offering no solutions to the circumstances that put him in such a place in the first place. As if electing Biden stops Republicans from being Republicans? Medicare and Medicaid are being cut severely. Biden has been the president where scalping is finally lower and all he does is spend extra on killing.

    As you have noticed, negotiation about genocide isn’t even an option with them. We have to elect their official or we get, wait for it, genocide and fascism? 😱

    To Biden fans: If getting rid of Trump is your truly your biggest worry than vote for a progressive president with us!

    tldr: The Republicans have become so unbelievable that the insanity and inability of Democrats to do anything is normal to many people.