Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., advised Democrat lawmakers on Friday to rethink their strategy for criticizing President Donald Trump, saying the president’s White House victory capitalized on a “system that is broken.”
Speaking to The New York Times in an extensive interview, the longtime independent senator from Vermont said his warning of an entrenched political establishment did not go ignored when he ran for president in 2020. “I’m not so sure that the country has not been heeding the message. You know, I ran for president taking on the corporate world, the Republican Party and the entire Democratic establishment, and we started with no name recognition and nothing, and we ended up winning 23 states. So I don’t think people were ignoring me,” Sanders said.
Sanders claimed that many lawmakers in both parties refuse to fight for “working families” and such complacency has allowed the ultra-rich like Elon Musk to yield immense power. Without citing billionaire Democrat donor George Soros by name, Sanders did lament “other multibillionaires in both political parties” as culpable for a broken political system.
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