Bernie Sanders throws up his hands and admits the Democrats are also a threat to democracy

Even after the chaos, cruelty, and horror of the last few months, voters still prefer Republicans over Democrats. New polling will be grim reading for Democrats hoping for a burst in popularity, with 41% of Americans having a favorable view of Republicans, compared to just 36% approving of Democrats.

Bernie Sanders – a longtime critic of centrist Dem strategy – is in despair, now unable to deny that Democrats are a threat to democracy. The case that they “removed the democratic process from its constituents” by rigging or preventing primaries was put to him in a recent interview. Sanders paused, threw up his hands, and said “Fair enough, I’m not going to argue with that point“:

Bernie Sanders admits the Democrats don’t hold fair primary elections and are also a threat to democracy.

It’s nice to see him finally admit it but it’s still unforgivable that he continues to support a party that rigged two primary elections against him. pic.twitter.com/qT3VwT8cIl

— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) May 19, 2025

And, frankly, given the fact that Democratic Party higher-ups have been exposed as lying to the press and electorate to boost their careers, who can blame him? The new revelations about what the White House knew about Biden’s mental and physical decline while in office make for disturbing reading, with his staff deciding they should cover everything up and insist all is well.

That strategy disintegrated on contact with reality the minute Biden stumbled onto that presidential debate stage, at which point voters learned the horrifying truth about their president. You don’t need me to tell you what happened next, though Democratic operatives essentially paved a road for Trump and his cronies to stroll back into the White House.

All of which makes the Democrats’ continuing protests that Trump is an existential threat to democracy ring hollow. After all, surely covering up that the president is incapable of doing the job, blocking the party from holding a primary to decide his replacement, and then refusing to drop out until it was far too late is also undermining democracy?

America desperately needs an effective opposition now more than ever. Trump’s Republicans are breaking the law, ignoring due process, and tearing up the Constitution – all things that demand elected officials with conviction and backbone to fight back against it, even at personal cost to themselves. But, sadly, there’s precious little of that in the spineless, cowed, and geriatric Democrats.

Whether they can turn that around during the next few years remains to be seen, but if they don’t grow a backbone and fight, we’re looking at a miserable and depressing future.