Former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer, Tezlyn Figaro, criticized Sanders for endorsing President Biden, questioning his absence in key moments and accusing him of abandoning the progressive movement.
Figaro asked, “I’ll be honest with you: Where’s been Bernie Sanders the last three or four years?”
“I worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016. I did not in 2020. And people who have followed him have been looking for his leadership, and he’s kind of been missing in action,” she continued.
Sanders highlighted Trump’s appeal but noted differences in their ideologies.
Sanders said, “[Voters are asking] what are you doing for me? You’re not doing really much. Trump is coming along: He is an atypical politician. He wants to get rid of all of that stuff. Why not?”
He explained, “I think he’s a little crazy. Maybe I don’t agree with him on this, but he’s at least not part of the old-fashioned political establishment. So that has an appeal.”
Figaro expressed disappointment in Sanders’ support for Biden, citing discrepancies in their progressivism.
Figaro said, “It is just impossible for me to get on here and pretend as if I haven’t been disappointed in him, or that his followers have not been disappointed in him.”
“This is why the Bernie Sanders movement; the progressive movement backed away from Bernie Sanders when he endorsed Joe Biden because Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are not the same on the left.” she explained.
Adding, “And Joe Biden said out of the gate he was a moderate; he was never going to be a socialist. So Bernie Sanders basically sold his movement down the river, and now he has to try to back it up and backtrack.”
Sanders endorsed Biden in 2023, emphasizing the need to prevent right-wing threats to democracy and social issues.
Sanders said in April 2023, the “last thing this country needs is a Donald Trump or some other right-wing demagogue who is going to try to undermine American democracy or take away a woman’s right to choose, or not address the crisis of gun violence, or racism, sexism or homophobia.”
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