Bernie Sanders On Whether Democrats Will Learn From Harris Loss: ‘Probably Not’ | EUROtoday

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) struck a pessimistic tone the day after Donald Trump turned the projected winner of the presidential election, saying Democrats shouldn’t be shocked by their losses amongst key demographics however are unlikely to vary course.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders stated in a prolonged assertion Wednesday. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

Election returns up to now present Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign for the presidency misplaced footing in demographics that had been key to her success in such a good race, particularly Latinos, younger folks and rural residents, amongst different teams Democrats might as soon as rely as dependable supporters.

Sanders, who ran as a progressive in opposition to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, provided little hope that Democrats ― with whom he caucuses in Congress ― will see the error of their methods.

“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” Sanders requested. “Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power?”

To all these questions, Sanders answered: “Probably not.”

Americans’ disillusion with the Democratic Party is sensible to him, he defined, noting that 60% of them proceed to dwell paycheck to paycheck because the wealth hole soars, and that regardless of huge spending, Americans pay obscene sums for well being care that different developed nations deal with as a human proper.

Sanders, a vocal opponent of the U.S. assist in Israel’s warfare in Gaza, added that Democrats’ stance on that difficulty shouldn’t be missed, both.

Despite opposition, he stated, “we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government’s all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.”

U.S. involvement within the Israel-Palestine battle proved to be tough waters for Harris to navigate, and her pro-Israel stance clearly alienated some Arab American voters, even with Trump providing an much more aggressive stance on the difficulty. In Dearborn, Michigan, the most important majority Arab American metropolis within the nation, Trump trampled Harris regardless of Biden successful almost three-quarters of the vote there in 2020.

In the ultimate days of the election, Sanders urged Americans who disagreed with Harris’ place on Israel to nonetheless assist her.

“Some of you are saying, ‘How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she is supporting this terrible war?’ and that is a very fair question,” he stated in a video posted to social media. “And let me give you my best answer, and that is that even on this issue, Donald Trump and his right-wing friends are worse.”

“We will have, in my view, a much better chance of changing U.S. policy with Kamala than with Trump, who is extremely close to Netanyahu and sees him as a like-minded, right-wing extremist ally,” he continued, noting Republicans’ opposition to sending humanitarian help to Palestinians.