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Last month more than 4,000 people gathered in Chicago for the People’s Summit. Independent senator, former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivered the keynote speech. During his speech, he repeatedly criticized the Democratic Party, calling it an “absolute failure,” and blaming it for the election of President Trump. “I’m often asked by the media and others: How did it come about that Donald Trump, the most unpopular presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, won the election?” Sanders said. “And my answer is that Trump didn’t win the election; the Democratic Party lost the election. Let us be very, very clear: The current model and the current strategy of the Democratic Party is an absolute failure.”
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AMY GOODMAN: Over 4,000 people gathered in Chicago in June for the three-day People’s Summit, organized in part by National Nurses United. Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave a major speech, where he attacked both President Trump and the Democratic Party. Senator Sanders spoke at a time when […]
Can’t help wondering if he’d been elected, how much he could have managed to do with the GOP in control of The Hill.
He could have appointed progressive people to important agencies, especially the supreme court, thus changing the overall structure of the top echelon of our government; just the opposite of what Trump is doing. He would not have dismantled the clean water act which Obama put in place. He could have strengthened the EPA instead of weakening it like Trump is doing. He could have basically put us on a better course than we are on now.