Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of anti-Trump resistance
Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn.
He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9000 people had shown up for the rally.
“What all of this tells me, is not just in Michigan or in Vermont, the people of this country will not allow us to move toward oligarchy. They will not allow Trump to take us into authoritarianism,” Sanders yelled.
“We’re prepared to fight. And we’re going to win.”
At 83 years old, Sanders is not running for president again. But the stooped and silver-haired democratic socialist has emerged as a leader of the resistance to Donald Trump’s second presidency.
In tearing into Trump’s seizure of power and warning about the consequences of firing tens of thousands of government workers, Sanders is bucking the wishes of those who want Democrats to focus on the price of eggs or “roll over and play dead”.
For now, at least, Sanders stands alone as the only elected progressive willing to mount a national campaign to harness the fear and anger of the sprawling anti-Trump movement.
He drew a crowd of 4000 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday night. He faced another 2600 or so the next morning a few hours away in Altoona, Wisconsin, a town of less than 10,000 residents. And his crowd of 9000 in suburban Detroit exceeded his own team’s expectations. By design, each stop was in a swing US House district represented by a Republican.
Sanders, who was just elected to his fourth Senate term from Vermont, conceded that this is not the role he expected to play at this stage of his career.
In fact, his team intentionally waited in the early weeks of the Trump presidency to launch what they are now calling his “stop oligarchy tour” to see if a high-profile Democrat would fill the leadership void. Instead, Sanders — who is not a Democrat himself despite allying with Senate Democrats and running twice for the party’s presidential nomination — has people wondering if he’s considering another White House bid.
“This is like presidential campaign rallies, isn’t it? But I’m not running for president, and this is not a campaign,” Sanders told The Associated Press. “You gotta do what you gotta do. The country’s in trouble and I want to play my role.”
The Democrats still don’t know how they lost.
They do not comprehend nor acknowledge the role of their own middle class woke activists who drove males into the arms of the Trump.
They can not admit that their middle class aesthetics of hashtag activism and the intersectionist roulette of victimhood alienated voters.
They refuse to blame the Holy Trinity of woke Identity Politics:
1 – All white people are irredeemable cross burning racists.
2 – B-E-L-I-E-V-E ALL Women that ALL MEN are rapists.
3 – Anyone who supports free speech is a Uniform wearing nazi who hates the Trans Community.
That’s why Trump won.
He used the culture war ammunition our woke activists gave him and played to the resentment they generated.
Rather than arguing for better material gains for the working classes, we wallowed in a pronoun soup of alienating Pure Temple politics over Broadchurch solidarity.
While the middle class activist base stagger in shock, the Class Left is stepping up, and that’s what Bernie is leading.
People are so close to getting it…
…if the Left want to win, we need to bring back men to the Left.
The middle Class alienating woke chased men away from the Left by declaring anyone with a heteronormative penis was a hate crime of toxic masculinity.
Nice one wokies.
If we actually look at why young men voted Trump you immediately see these are voters we can bring back…
What do Trump-voting men want from women? Probably not what you think
The US presidential election seemed to mark a backlash to changing gender roles. But most Trump-voting men say they don’t want to return to the past.
President Donald Trump’s reelection seemed to mark a cultural turning point on gender – a backlash to #MeToo and other progress for women’s rights, and a return to a time when men could be men.
His campaign told men that they had lost their status in American society and that the Trump administration would restore it. Vice President JD Vance reiterated the point at a gathering of conservatives last month: “Don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends or because you’re competitive.”
It’s a message many Trump-voting men want to hear: Republican men are more likely than others to agree that Americans have negative views of manly men. Nearly half say that’s true, compared with a quarter of people overall, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted during the campaign, findings that have been reflected in other polls.
But survey data, academic research and interviews with Trump-voting men suggest that most don’t want to return to a more traditional masculinity either, one that requires men to be aggressive, dominant or stoic. Instead, they want Americans to have a different take on masculinity – one that is positive instead of negative, and broad instead of narrow.
Overall, respondents were more likely than not to say American society places too much emphasis on traditionally masculine traits like physical strength and risk-taking. A majority thought there wasn’t enough emphasis on being caring or open about emotions.
And a majority – including a majority of Republicans – said certain behaviours by men were unacceptable, like talking about women in a sexual way, drinking too much or throwing a punch.
Trump-voting men don’t necessarily share macho or sexist beliefs, the survey and interviews show. Instead, many think progressives have gone too far.
…shocking as this may seem to the Woke, these young men aren’t irredeemably evil.
If we want to win the next Election, the Left must win male voters back and let them know there is space on the Left for them and that our collective focus is on lifting the material well being and agency that is promised to every single one of us as citizens in a liberal progressive democracy.
The true demarcation of power in a liberal capitalist society is the 1% richest plus their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us.
Once you understand society in those terms, we can never lose an election.
Our enemy is vampire capitalism, not each other,
We need to be kinder to individuals and far crueller to corporations.
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You can’t raise defence spending by cutting the health and education budgets. It has to come from some sort of business tax. If they want free trade then we have to have some sort of military presence.
Bernie’s latest town halls are great although the US has deeper issues than the working/middle class being stiffed. Even if they took the wealth of the top 800 wealthiest Americans it would only cover 8 months of the deficit. The US needs a capital tax and/or a Federal VAT just to cover the deficit. Of course, they could rein in defense spending but that’s never going to happen. DOGE is like squeezing pimples and covering yourself in pus.
https://youtu.be/S7dNb8tpuoM?si=8H35jqnt7M0Kphp0
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