Sanders to Trump: 'There are no nice Nazis'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By David Weigel August 23 at 2:48 AM

DETROIT — At a town hall meeting that occasionally had the feel of a campaign rally, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opened a new line of attack against the president’s Charlottesville reaction, while urging activists to stay inside the Democratic Party.

“We have a president who was equivocal — nice people on both sides!” said Sanders in a nighttime event at Fellowship Chapel Church. “No! There are no nice Nazis!”

More than 2,000 people had streamed into the church to hear Sanders and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) pitch the vague outlines of a Medicare-for-all plan that progressives expect to rally around next month. Voters left the meeting after hearing about far more than health care — from Conyers’s full employment bill, to the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan, to whether agri-business was a corrupting influence on health care.

Toward the end, a 33-year-old metal designer named Scott Devey asked Sanders whether the Democratic and Republican parties were simply too far gone, and if he could help found a third party.

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[bullwinkle428]

1. "Bernie...urging activists to stay inside the Democratic party!"

[Sunlei]

3. Good question & EXCELLENT quote"Bernie...urging activists to stay inside the Democratic party!"

[kenfrequed]

2. Exactly

Progressives need to stay in the party and take over it.

Also, I was glad to see the two big proponents of single payer healthcare up on stage at the same time!

[madokie]

4. That we will do

[TomCADem]

5. Hill: Sanders defends Trump voters: I don't think they're racists, sexists or homophobes

I thought Bernie's message was that the people at Trump's rallies were not really racists or Neo-nazis, but that they were justifiably angry, and that Democrats need to get away from identity politics and attacking Trump voters as racists.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326820-sanders-defends-trump-voters-i-dont-think-theyre-racists

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on Friday defended voters of President Trump, saying that the election was Democrats' to lose and that the party needs to better represent the working-class voters who supported Trump and other GOP lawmakers

"Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don't agree, because I've been there. Let me tell you something else some of you might not agree with, it wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election," Sanders said while speaking at an Our Revolution rally in Boston with fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Sanders went on to say that a "fundamental restructuring of the Democratic party" was needed to win future elections and that problems with party's current setup is why many were quick to support Trump in the election, not because of some of the rhetoric on the campaign trail.

"We need a Democratic Party that is not a party of the liberal elite but of the working class of this country, we need a party that is a grassroots party, where candidates are talking to working people not spending their time raising money for the wealthy and the powerful," Sanders said. "And when we do that, when we transform the Democratic Party, we transform America."

[Doug the Dem]

6. Not even Mel Gibson?

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My wife doesn't like what he's said, but she still loves his movies! (Actually, to be honest, I really liked Signs.)

[JI7]

7. that doesn't mean he is nice .

[Doug the Dem]

8. Wasn't suggesting that

Seems like a complete asshole, in fact. But I did enjoy Signs. I also liked Woody Allen's Crimes & Misdemeanors, as well as Pedro Almodóvar's Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down.