Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted the Democratic Celebration’s “disastrous” marketing campaign in a scathing assertion after Kamala Harris misplaced the presidential election to Donald Trump. Sanders stated that it “ought to come as no nice shock {that a} Democratic Celebration which has deserted working class individuals would discover that the working class has deserted them.”
“First, it was the white working class, and now it’s Latino and Black employees as nicely,” Sanders wrote in his assertion, shared on social media. “Whereas the Democratic management defends the established order, the American persons are offended and need change. And so they’re proper.”
‘We proceed to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu authorities’s all out struggle’
Sanders, who had run for president again in 2016, mirrored on how individuals in America proceed to face financial instability, together with earnings and wealth inequality. He additionally known as out the spending on army help to Israel.
“Right this moment, regardless of sturdy opposition from a majority of People, we proceed to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu authorities’s all out struggle in opposition to the Palestinian individuals which has led to the horrific humanitarian catastrophe of mass malnutrition and the hunger of 1000’s of youngsters,” Sanders stated.
Sanders additionally expressed his doubt in regards to the get together’s capacity to study its lesson. “Will the large cash pursuits and well-paid consultants who management the Democratic Celebration study any actual classes from this disastrous marketing campaign? Will they perceive the ache and political alienation that tens of thousands and thousands of People are experiencing? Have they got any concepts as to how we will tackle the more and more highly effective Oligarchy which has a lot financial and political energy? Most likely not,” he stated.
Sanders added that “very critical political discussions” are required in regards to the path ahead for “these of us involved about grassroots democracy and financial justice.”
After shedding the election, Harris stated in a speech at her alma mater, Howard College, in Washington, D.C., “Whereas I concede this election, I don’t concede the battle that fueled this marketing campaign.”