‘Most ruthless’: Big name ex-Dem says Democratic Party actually is the ‘threat’ to democracy

For years, Democrats have insisted over and over and over that Republicans are a threat to democracy.

Specifically, they have claimed, wildly, that President Donald Trump would set himself up as a dictator, would cancel elections, would, in fact, end “democracy.”

Trump’s move into the White House for a second term, his adherence to the Constitution and various precedential norms, even his decisions at time to challenge those, all reveal a dedication to the rule of law.

It actually, according to a former Democrat now describing himself as “independent,” is the Democratic Party that offers that threat.

That’s according to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who was in a discussion with comedian Akaash Singh.

“There hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008. Are they not also a threat to democracy?”

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Sanders was told about how for multiple elections already the Democrat party has not allowed an open selection process for the party’s nomination for president.

For example, during the 2020 race, when a feeble and mentally diminished Joe Biden finally bowed out, it was the party elites to picked Kamala Harris as his replacement, without any vote at all.

“Could we not also say if — ostensibly, there hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008. Are they not also a threat to democracy?” Biden is asked.

“Yes. Fair enough. That is — yeah, I’m not going to argue with that point. And that’s why I’m proudly an independent,” Sanders said. “What we’re trying to do now … the hatred that we felt in 2016, 2020, from the Democratic establishment … We would do rallies and we had thousands of people — often young people, people of color coming out, working-class people coming out. They were great, full of energy. And then we’d go to Democratic Party events and there’d be a few hundred people, mostly older, whiter, wealthier.”

He continued, “Then you saw the clash. And the establishment did not want to open the door. They hated the idea for all these people whose hands were a little bit dirty, who didn’t have PhDs or weren’t wealthy — imagine walking in: ‘It’s my party, man. You ain’t getting in. We will fight you in the most ruthless ways that we can.’ And that’s the struggle.”