Sen. Bernie Sanders Says He’s ‘Deeply Humiliated’ by Democrats

He said that at their meeting last week, the president-elect said he would maintain the US commitment to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – something the GOP nominee himself questioned on the campaign trail.

“The best case scenario is that Trump is not an ideologue”, Sanders told the host.

The American Nazi Party and Ku Klux Klan have released statements praising Trump’s decision to hire Bannon.

Sanders has spent the week since Trump’s election saying that he is willing to work with the president-elect but that he is deeply concerned about the destructive policies Trump may be able to pass with a GOP-controlled Congress.

Sanders fears that campaign finance laws, which have already become lax, will disappear completely.

Moments later, Sanders seemed to take a veiled shot at the Democratic Party for favoring Hillary Clinton in the general election. She found herself unable to assemble an electoral coalition for victory and lost a number of states that Obama himself had won.

Democratic leaders delivered pep talks to demoralized supporters on Monday, promising to reassess their strategy, message and organization in the wake of last week’s devastating defeat. While it is nice to say you voted for the victor, it is more important to vote your conscience, and pay attention to the things that are actually said by the candidates, across the board. Hillary was there but, for whatever reason, she didn’t use this motto in 2016: she didn’t make economic fairness her cornerstone issue and it cost her. Remember, if we don’t like the job Trump has done in four years, we can always vote him out.

Why hopeful? Well, Trump is smart enough to know that there is a lot of important work to be done and a country to unite. “If we can’t do that, I don’t see much of a future”, Mr. Sanders who was named leader of the party’s outreach efforts, said on Wednesday. “Climate change is not a hoax”, Sanders said.

The Vermont senator opposes Trump’s tax policy, which would cut taxes for the top 1% of earners by $317,000 per year, according to the Tax Policy Center. “And they want to express their point of view that they are very frightened, in very, very strong disagreement with Mr. Trump, who has made bigotry the cornerstone of his campaign”, he told USA Today.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose own bid for the Democratic nomination focused on the plight of working-class Americans, has lamented in the days after the election how Clinton didn’t tap into many Americans’ discontent with the status quo.

“The first thing that will be resolved – pretty quickly – is whether or not everything that he was saying to the working families of this country was hypocrisy, was dishonest, or whether he was honest”, Sanders said.

“A tariff may well be one of those options”, Sanders said.

On the other hand, Trump ran his campaign talking about he was going to be a champion of the working class.