Bernie Sanders Torches Dems for ‘Abandoning Working Class People’ and ‘Funding Extremist Netanyahu’ in Brutal Statement On Trump Win

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released a scathing statement blaming the Democrats for losing to Donald Trump for a second time.

Trump on Wednesday was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election over Vice President Kamala Harris. While the loss came as a shock to some Democrats, what made it even more stunning was how Harris was soundly defeated. The vice president didn’t win a single swing state, under-performing in key districts while Trump gained a significant portion of those voters.

In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Sanders blamed the Democratic Party for “abandoning working-class people.” He added:

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. 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.

Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.

Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.

Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.

Sanders also blamed the Democrats’ stance on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas — and their relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — for the brutal Election Day that saw the party lose both the presidency and the Senate. At the time of writing, the Republican Party is also in a position to win the majority of seats in the House of Representatives.

“Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, 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,” Sanders continued.

“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? 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? Probably not.

“In the coming weeks and months those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions,” Sanders wrote, concluding, “Stay tuned.”