Bernie Sanders Tells Colbert How Americans Can ‘Fight Back’ Against Trump

He will be the first president to have been roasted on Comedy Central.

Trump’s win has reignited debate about abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a format centered on the results of the popular vote. However, I don’t think this would not be the case in a general election, and Republicans would have had plenty to work with.

“On virtually every issue I talk about…the vast majority of the American people are on our side”. Obviously, this is not what happened. With humility comes the chance to scale up our campaigning and take the next step in the living revolution.

Hundreds of callers have flooded Sanders’ office phone lines, urging him to keep pressuring for the dismissal of Stephen Bannon, the right-wing media executive and white-nationalist favorite recently named Trump’s chief White House strategist. And Senate Democrats hope to use the filibuster – the only real leverage they have to stymie Trump and congressional Republicans – sparingly.

Bernie Sanders is back on the stump. But there are millions and millions of people today, working-class people, middle-class people, who are living in despair. He did not speak for corporations, lobbyists, or big banks; Sanders spoke purely from the heart. This contingent had been pointing to a series of polls taken and published before the Democratic primaries ended showing Sanders with a healthy lead over Trump. “Over these next few months, we’re going to have to be focused very deeply on how we put more democracy into the Democratic National Committee so that it does a better job of representing what’s happening out in the community”.

The question for Sanders’ supporters is what they do next. It would mean actual systemic change.

The Trumpian populism of the 2010s will likely have no more staying power than the agrarian populism of the 1880s and 90s, which was similarly driven by demographic groups on the decline and similarly undercut by ongoing structural change.

This campaign revolved around 15 states of the country, right?

Sanders: If Elon Musk (founder of SpaceX) called me, I could go to Mars.

The poll was commissioned and financed by outgoing Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, a Democrat who endorsed Sanders in the presidential primary, The Huffington Post reported. They really are. People are turning off their TVs. And Werlau says his vote for Johnson wasn’t a spoiler, because he “wasn’t going to vote for Hillary in the first place”.

A day after joining the Senate Democratic leadership, Vermont Sen. They feel the economy of this country is not working for them.

The Democrats assumed wrong. And people are asking: How does it happen that a political party which wants to give tax breaks to billionaires, which nobody supports; which wants to cut programs for working people; wants to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; many of whose members do not even believe in the reality of climate change – how in God’s name do these guys win elections?

In Manhattan, protesters carried placards in both English and Spanish, chanting maxims such as “Hate won’t make us great!” and “We are here to stay!” as they swarmed the president-elect’s Midtown penthouse home. Bled by the financial crisis, hurt by the trade deals leading to export of jobs and deindustrialisation, the unemployed white workers of the so-called rust belt were ready to do a Brexit on the establishment, Democratic as well as Republican.

With a letter – and piece of pie – in hand, they asked a staffer if Ryan was available to discuss their opposition to his longstanding plans to remake Medicare. “And Trump had that and Bernie had that, and Clinton seemed not to know what the rest of us are going through”. Until a progressive populist is allowed to prosper within the Democrats’ monopoly of centrism-leftism, fear and discrimination will continue to dominate, because those are the principles on which America was founded. Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, and all the corporatist failures in the Democratic Party are far too weakly received to ever be able to threaten that hegemony.