Bernie Sanders explains why Trump is so dangerous

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Bernie Sanders explains why Trump is so dangerous

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/22/15848468/bernie-sanders-trump-dangerous-authoritarian


Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders may have lost his bid for the White House in 2016, but he’s sure as hell not ready to fade into obscurity anytime soon. Instead, he’s emerged as a gadfly, loudly and publicly sounding the alarm on what he sees as the country’s troubling descent into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.

“I can't remember a president who has had more authoritarian tendencies than Trump,” Sanders told me in an interview on Wednesday. “What is going on is not only this rise of authoritarianism but also, simultaneously, you are seeing this country move very rapidly toward oligarchy.”

As Sanders prepared to give a big speech on Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he got on the phone with me to talk about Trump’s admiration for authoritarian leaders, his attacks on the media, the Russia investigation, and more.

Sanders told me he believes Trump has a basic disrespect for the fundamental pillars of democracy — the press, the judicial system — that mimics the authoritarian regimes the Trump administration has cozied up to around the globe. And that combination, he says, is dangerous.

[shraby]

1. That's easy to tell just by pictures. Trump's Mussolini face tells it all.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. His pumping his fist and thumbs up bull shit drives me up a wall.

[bdamomma]

3. history will not be kind

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to this SOB, we need to eradicate this cancer on our country. WE cannot do this

[George II]

4. To whom?

[bdamomma]

5. To whom??

Hopefully justice will prevail, to rid this cancer on our country.