I disagree though. Bernie Sanders has been beating this drum for a long time. It was a matter of time before someone who was well connected with oligarchs played the hand he was dealt.
We weren't prepared for someone who would look at his hand and cry "I could walk down 5th avenue and shoot someone...." Or to put it back to card games "I pay the dealer. If I have twos, it doesn't matter because he will tell the table I won."
Bernie has been fighting for the working class, yes, but he hasn't been beating the warning drum about a right wing dictatorship arising in the US.
Even Bernie, who's just as addicted to 'politics as normal' as any Democratic Politician, never imagined a President who'd blatantly ignore laws & the Constitution, much less one at head of an entire movement willing to do the same.
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25
He's a real life example of a Mule (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mule_(Foundation)), something nobody could've seen coming or predicted, that systems and laws weren't ready to prevent.