Bernie Sanders to the Democrats: resist Trump is not good enough

Harrisburg, for the era of politics dominated by President Donald Trump, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) He has offered the same council to the Democratic Party on and on Again: just try to stop what Trump is doing is not enough.

This time, however, there is the possibility that the party really listens. While Sanders campaigns throughout the country, attracting tens of thousands of people in demonstrations in Congress districts controlled by the Republican Party, the party is seeing that its approval ratings slide to register minimums. Combined with the mutual hug between Trump and some of the richest people in the world, the stage is ready for Sanders, 83, to form the direction of the party in an unprecedented way.

“I think the American people not only want resistance to Trump, but I think they want what the Democratic Party in recent years has not given them, and that is an agenda that speaks of the needs of the working class, because it is not good enough,” Sanders told News themezone in an exclusive interview with News themezone with News themezone after his rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Friday.

“‘Oh, well, you know, Trump is a terrible guy,” he continued, imitating other critics of the president. “Well. You know, most Americans understand that. What is your alternative? Why was Trump chosen? What do you have to tell a worker who is earning $ 14 per hour, who cannot pay medical attention? Tell me what you have to say.

Sanders’ increasing influence does not mean that the whole party will embrace his call to “Medicare for all” or a free university. But it can mean that even moderates observe their anti-establishment style more closely and their incessant approach to economic policy as a way of combating the beliefs of voters of voters that Democrats are too close to impeccable institutions and too obsessed with cultural war problems.

“We saw people like Bernie as an atypical threat to the Institutional Democratic Party, when I was speaking and still speaking is the cross message. And it attracts Trump’s voters to the Democratic coalition,” Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn). saying In an interview last month.

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Sanders spoke on Friday to a room full of about 4,000 people, his twelfth stop on a tour that began in March with the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Dn.y.), who seems to be sure of inheriting the mantle of his base movement. His approach has been organizing the Anti-Trump energy and directing it in the districts of Congress controlled by Republicans whose owners have moved away from committing to constituents angry in public municipalities, the critical democrats of the battlefields hope to turn in the middle of the period of next year.

But the tour, although mainly a response to Trump, is also a reaction to the anger to the left towards a perceived empty of democratic leadership nationwide. The Democrats of Congress, hindered by minorities in both legislative chambers, were disbursed by the vertiginous rhythm of Trump’s policies and initially the organization of slow legs against them. They have awakened in recent weeks, with Democratic governors such as JB Pritzker from Illinois and Andy Beshear of Kentucky speaking on the national stage, and Cory Booker of New Jersey and Chris van Hollen de Maryland making his influence on the Senate and abroad.

The attendees who spoke with News themezone in Sanders’ Rally in Harrisburg have noticed, mentioning the names of Pritzker, Booker and Ocasio-Cortez as Democrats who feel they are taking a step forward properly. But others still do not believe that the opposition party is fulfilling the moment, yearning for a more aggressive setback, even if the Democrats have little power in Washington at this time.

“Some of them are not doing Jack,” said Cameron Cuelow, a York steel worker. “Democrats who are also taking corporate money are as bad as Republicans. You can’t resist Trump if you’re going to do the same thing he’s doing.”

Victoria Slobodian, a social worker from Camp Hill, said that the inaction of the Democrats is “allowing it to happen.”

“I am seeing more people talking now, but they had done it at the beginning, and they had a strong position, I really feel that it would not be as bad as it is now,” he added, expressing fears about republican attacks against Medicaid and other public services designed to support the vulnerable.

Other prominent figures within the Democratic Party such as the governor of California Gavin Newsom and the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, who are potential presidential contestants of 2028, are adopting a different approach to Trump: involving him and his administration when the moment requires it or when it is benefiting its components. Whitmer, in particular, has elevated eyebrows When appearing with the president in the Oval office, even sharing a hug With him, movements that produced a victory for their state, including a new combat plane mission at the Base of the National Guard Air Selfridge.

“I have to put people in Michigan first about my own interest, about what people assume that they will be my political interests,” Whitmer explained last week in an interview with the popular liberal podcast “Pod Save Save Save America.”

Sanders’ approach has not escaped criticism either. A couple of democratic senators of the battlefield states – Elissa Slotkin from Michigan and John Fetterman From Pennsylvania, he suggested that his companion colleague of the Senate and other critics of Trump should stop using the term “oligarchy” in relation to the Trump multimillionaire cabinet because it does not resonate with voters outside the coastal areas.

That excavation was found with an abrupt dismissal of Sanders.

“Well, God. We had 36,000 people in Los Angeles, 34,000 people in Colorado. We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California, which is a kind of rural area. I think the US people are not as dumb as Mrs. Slotkin believes they are,” Sanders said in an interview with the “Meet The Press” of NBC last month.

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Faiz Shakir, a main advisor to Sanders, also responded to Fetterman on Sunday, saying It should be put “in the category of Democrats who want to talk to people [and who] I think they are too dumb to understand the general notions of the powerful elites that direct this country. “

Outside the Friday demonstration in Harrisburg, sellers sold goods of anti-trump resistance for sale that included images of Sanders, as well as hats with the “AOC 2028” cards stamped on them, advocating for a presidential future led by the 35-year-old congresswoman of New York. The Blue and Yellow Ukrainian flags flew over the parked cars while the attendees wearing “Gulf of Mexico” shirts challenged Trump’s name change for the basin raised for the photos of the media.

The attendees, many of whom had never been in a political demonstration, said they went out to listen to Sanders for anger and anxiety, and as a way of doing a position by themselves.

“I am worried about me and my other friends who look like me, because people are being deported that they are not even criminals or nothing at all. Just go, ‘Oh, that’s how you see yourself? Putting on the Gulag.’ It’s horrible, it’s terrible,” Jozlynn Ayers, a retail worker in Harrisburg, told Harrisburg.

“I can’t see the news anymore,” added Nancy Michaelian, a Harrisburg nurse. “It is unreal for me that Congress has established and renounced all responsibility. It is amazing.”