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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    He’s right. Of course, this won’t stop “BOTH SIDES” fans, who want fascism in America more than anything else in the world.

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      They are moving away from “Both Sides” and starting “Biden supports genocide.” It’s just a new way for below average people to think they’re smarter than everyone else.

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        Whoa people are mad that their president is funding a genocide?? :0

        Smh they should just stfu and vote. Who cares about foreigners dying

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          Trump didn’t care about US citizens dying, or did he apologize for fucking up his covid response yet?

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            Lmao did you think I was suggesting he’s somehow better?

            I just find it funny that Americans pretend like their bourgeois “democracy” isn’t just a poorly veiled oligarchy where you get to “choose” between the genocidal zionazi party and the fascist party.

            Neither of whom give a fuck about the working class, though one is a bit better at pretending like they do.

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                How is what Americans pretend to do relevant here?

                Ah sorry, were we talking about African elections?

                did you think I am American?

                When did I say you were?

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                  Oh so you just went on some rant about Americans as a reply to me even though it’s not relevant at all, gotcha

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                    Yeah sorry I thought we were talking about American elections for a second there

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              One side is clearly better unless you do false equivalence, look at the mortality rate of mothers in states with abortion bans and without etc.

              I know this is not as edgy of a take as your both sides cuntery but there is clearly a better and worse choice for the US regardless what kind of zionazi epic words you want to use from your basement setup.

              It’s not like Americans don’t know their system is broken, but it’s not like they can fix it one day to the next, they have an election coming up where they have to choose between a shit candidate and a straight up fascist who tried to overthrow their election

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                Yeah I do agree people should probably still vote for the genocide party, as long as they’re organizing outside the system and building class consciousness to eventually overthrow it.

                Just that they shouldn’t pretend like they’re not voting for a genocidal zionazi.

                what kind of zionazi epic words

                Are “genocide” and “nazi” also “epic words”? It conveys the fact that Biden is a zionist and a nazi quite well, no? Specially when I’ve linked him admitting he is one.

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                  He’s backing Israel because it’s what they’ve always done. It’s a strategic alliance. It’s Nathan yahoo dropping bombs on cities