Bernie Sanders says Trump tapped into ‘middle-class anger’

Trump accused Clinton, with a net worth of more than $100 million, of being part of an out-of-touch elite.

It’s fair to say most Democrats were stunned by this week’s election results. “(Republicans) will get a chance to do the right thing”. So now, some of them vent. Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whether he would’ve brought Democrats to the White House, Sanders smiled before bellowing. “That is the German word for taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune…” I hope he rethinks it, and I hope that he understands that in the year 2016, we are not going back to a society rampant with racism, and sexism, and homophobia and xenophobia. “But I’m happy that what I perceived as unfair tactics lost”.

PCCC and Democracy for America, a group that endorsed Sanders for president before backing Clinton in the general election, vowed to fight against a Trump agenda.

The DNC and the Democratic establishment did everything in its power to derail Sanders’ path to the nomination and succeeded. “There’s a lack of understanding by people in Washington about what’s going on out in the real world”.

“We need to do some real soul searching in the Democratic Party about its future”, he said.

“What I don’t think even a win would have masked, though it would have masked it more easily, is the divide between center left and left” in the party, said Rosen, a Clinton supporter.

“If Donald Trump takes people’s anger and turns it against Muslims, Hispanics, African-Americans and women, we will be his worst nightmare”, Sanders wrote. I think that’s why Trump has won this election. She has served the public for many, many decades and has broken many barriers”, adding that “she deserves an enormous amount of credit.

During a presidential debate last month, Trump vowed to appoint a special prosecutor to examine Clinton’s use of a private email server and remarked that she would “be in jail” if he were president. He won 22 states and 47 percent of votes, relying exclusively on the message that the political and economic system was rigged in favor of the wealthy. Sanders’ message is simple: Now is the time for revolution. However, when it comes to Steve Bannon, Sanders said it should “make us very nervous”. For him, it was about tone.

“Four years is a long time from now”, said the 75-year-old Vermont senator, noting that he faces re-election to the Senate in 2018.

“We’re going to try like hell”, he said.

Though polls showed many Latinos and women were repelled by Trump before Election Day, Trump actually slightly outperformed Mitt Romney among Latinos.

Now, Sanders is speaking out.sort of.about the unexpected and surprising victory. “If he is serious about reforming our trade policies and creating jobs, let us work with him”.

The question for Sanders’ supporters is what they do next. Winnie Wong, organizer of the online group People for Bernie, told NPR that majority will take their activism to other causes, and future elections.

“This is painful, and it will be for a long time”, Clinton said in her concession speech Wednesday in NY. Instead she’s looking forward.