Bernie Sanders’ Revolution Isn’t Over Yet

Among all voters, however, 58% think the Democratic Party should work with Trump, while 36% think it should stand up for what it believes in.

After Sanders plugged his new book – Our Revolution: a Future to Believe in – Colbert shifted the conversation toward a post-mortem of the election.

So now, as the Trump team and establishment Republicans struggle to mend fences and find shared goals for the new administration, Democrats must decide who stays – and who goes – in their party’s leadership positions.

“What it would say is that Democratic Party can not be continued to be run by, what I call, the ‘liberal elite, ‘” he said.

US Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during his rally at the Charleston Civic Center on May 5, 2016 in Charleston, West Virginia. Our Revolution, a political action organization that promotes progressive politics, live-streamed the Sanders speech on Facebook.

In a show of strength, Ellison rolled out 40 endorsements, including Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and Reid’s expected successor, Sen. In addition to being the chair of outreach, Sanders will also serve as a ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.

While Sanders doesn’t think Trump is an ideologue, and hopes that means he will be able to be swayed by good ideas, he also worries about what the people around a President Trump might do with all their newfound power. They aren’t anywhere. All I know is he wants to build a wall. “Our job is to mobilize and educate and to fight back at every instance”, Sanders told the BBC.

Saying it’s easy to condemn and harder to convince, Colbert asked Sanders if he thought there was crossover anger between his supporters and Trump’s. “So, I look forward to working with him if he is going to be honest and consistent with his campaign rhetoric on improving the economy for working families, we’re going to oppose him vigorously in terms of his bigotry”.

The Vermont senator said that he brought “millions of people into the process” and that the vast majority likely voted for Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Trump after a bruising battle on November 8. The right to choose, the right to control their own bodies.

“We are not going backward”, he warned.

For months over the course of the campaign, many in Sanders’ ranks said he was the only candidate with a sure shot at beating Trump, that he could reach working class voters better than Hillary Clinton could, and that he offered a true progressive agenda that Clinton could not.

As much as some Americans would like to see Bernie Sanders as our president-elect – and no, it’s not possible – we’re going to have to deal with Donald Trump for at least four years.