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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders DESTROYS Trump: "HE IS A FRAUD!"
Bernie Sanders calls out Donald Trump for turning his back on Americans who bought into his populist rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign.
boston bean
(36,222 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)FakeNoose
(32,656 posts)Help us bury this guy.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)only talks about him when he is trying to divide democrats.
still_one
(92,250 posts)melt away
Atman
(31,464 posts)They don't. We may love what Bernie is saying, but if THEY don't care, it's pretty much preaching to the choir. Far from destruction.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)Trump is a con man who stole "populist" rhetoric because it ensured continued divisiveness.
Trump is a con man who is incapable of promising anything. It's naive of Sanders to miss that.
Obama and Clinton were calling out Trump's game long before Bernie.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)direct his criticisms toward republicans. Funny that he does, it doesn't seem to garner any love for him.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)he made his comment at a rally about Trump's racist, sexist, homophobic supporters not being "deplorables."
That's why he was criticized.
http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-voters-clinton-racist-deplorable-578290
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)DESTROY anyone. He is one Senator, making a statement. And he's not the only one to make that statement, either.
Senator's Sanders' word is not definitive, nor will it affect Donald Trump even a little. Sanders did not DESTROY Trump. He simply called him a name. That will have zero effect on anything at all.
I have called Donald Trump many derogatory things. My words have an equal impact as Sanders' words. Zero.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Over-hyping or exaggerating in the title in order to tee it up for the inevitable sarcasm and whining. I don't know if that was deliberate or not. Because you must know by now there are a few that are always scanning the top posts that have any mention of Sanders in order to find any red herring they can to derail it with. And that title is a yuuuuuuuge temptation for some to make a joke at Bernie's expense in order to make light of his efforts.
No, Trump doesn't give a crap about what Bernie says, and maybe most Republican voters don't either. Or even a lot of Democrats. But everything helps. The resistance has to go on whether some are sick of hearing similar battle cries or not. Isn't it better the more voices on TV that are critical of Trump than not? I wish they'd live by the rule "if you can't say anything nice...just stay out of the thread."
Bernie remains a popular ie. influential figure in American politics. To Bernie supporters this is something to be celebrated as it means his moderately progressive platform still has legs. Go Bernie!!! We can't control how every Democrat feels about him, although its puzzling to think there is such vitriol against someone that wants to help. Even the tough love part.
Can you imagine if he had taken that populism and set out on his own, or took the Green Party leadership, and dragged that influence with him away from the Democratic party? Instead he adamantly refused to join the Greens and is working with Democrats like Warren to push for progressive policy along side.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)obviously why you continue to blame those Democrats who realized the scam from the beginning. What a shame.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)druidity33
(6,446 posts)because this post totally sounds like a tRump tweet. Were you responding to a different post? I saw no blaming...
What scam?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)By destroyed, they mean Trumps SC nominee didn't go through? That Sanders is leading impeachment hearings against Trump?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Making all the logical points in an argument is NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING like DESTROYING anyone.
Please stop with such stupid headlines.
DESTROYING Trump would involve taking away his power.