Sanders needs to pack it in. His time is over.
And now Bernie Sanders was utterly humiliated when asked this obvious question.
Sanders Shrugs Off Warnings From His Own Party, Doubles Down on Failed Socialist Experiment
Bernie Sanders had a chance Sunday to acknowledge what even members of his own party are now saying out loud: that the Democratic establishment’s tolerance for far-left extremism is becoming a liability. Instead, on Meet the Press, he dismissed the warning entirely and doubled down on the very judgment that helped produce one of the cycle’s most embarrassing Democratic scandals.
Sanders Brushes Off a Fellow Democrat’s Alarm
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has spent months sounding the alarm about the direction of his own party — pushing back on its embrace of socialist candidates like Maine’s Graham Platner, criticizing Democrats’ soft-on-enforcement approach to illegal immigration, and calling out what he sees as a party drifting away from support for Israel. He’s named Sanders directly as a source of that dysfunction. Host Kristen Welker asked Sanders to respond.
Rather than engage with the substance, Sanders dismissed Fetterman as a party outlier. “Well, my response to Fetterman is last time I saw it, he was reflecting the views of about 19% of the Democrats in the state of Pennsylvania, I think probably lower than any other member of the Democratic Senate,” Sanders said. “Fetterman does his thing, I think on Israel and many other issues, is way out of touch with the people of America.”
No Accountability for Backing a Candidate Riddled With Red Flags
The exchange turned to a scandal Sanders would probably rather forget: his prolonged support for Platner despite a mounting pile of disqualifying revelations, including a N*zi tattoo, s*xting messages, allegations of abuse from women he had dated, and past calls for violence. Sanders only abandoned the candidate after an ex-girlfriend came forward accusing Platner of s*xual assault — a startling threshold for when the progressive movement finally decided enough was enough.
“There were very serious allegations against Platner,” Sanders told Welker. “As a result of those accusations, I and virtually all of his supporters requested that he withdraw from the race, and he did.”
Pressed on whether the episode gave him any pause about his own judgment, Sanders refused to concede an inch. “Platner ran a very strong campaign, and in fact, many of the issues that he’s raised are resonating all over this country,” he said. “A woman made very serious allegations against him. He withdrew from the race, period.”
Zero Reflection, Full Speed Ahead
Welker gave Sanders one more opening to show some self-awareness. “And just to button this up, any regrets? Do you wish, if you could go back—” she asked. Sanders deflected entirely, pivoting instead to the party’s next round of far-left hopefuls: “I’ll tell you, you know, I think right now we’re looking at a campaign in Michigan, we’re looking at a campaign in Minnesota. The people of this country right now are sick and tired of establishment politics and establishment policies. They want change and I and other progressives are going to do everything that we can to bring about those changes.”
The exchange laid bare a Democratic Party still unwilling to reckon with its own vetting failures — with Fetterman’s warnings about the socialist takeover of his party going unheeded by the very movement whose judgment produced the Platner disaster in the first place.
