Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the reelection of former President Trump would be the “end of democracy” in an interview released Saturday by The Guardian.

“It will be the end of democracy, functional democracy,” Sanders said in the interview.

The Vermont senator also said in the interview that he thinks that another round of Trump as the president will be a lot more extreme than the first.

“He’s made that clear,” Sanders said. “There’s a lot of personal bitterness, he’s a bitter man, having gone through four indictments, humiliated, he’s going to take it out on his enemies. We’ve got to explain to the American people what that means to them — what the collapse of American democracy will mean to all of us.”

Sanders’s words echo those President Biden made in a recent campaign speech during which he said that Trump’s return to the presidency would risk American democracy. The president highlighted the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in an attempt to cement a point about Trump and other Republicans espousing a kind of extremism that was seen by the world on that day.

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      you said that you know something. in order to know something you must have a justified true belief. justification is the proof. you don’t know what you claim to know. q e d

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            I gave a scenario which I think is basically impossible. I think you know that. And I’ll justify my impossible claim when you justify your impossible claim. At least I admit mine is impossible.

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                The flaw is that most people who run for president have no chance of getting elected. Including Cornel West and literally every other person who is not a Democrat or a Republican for over a century.

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                  you say the have no chance, but that’s not true, as illustrated in your own example. it may not be probable based on our current understanding, but it’s not impossible, and the fact that he is running makes it more probable than if he weren’t.

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                    Again, my “example” was to show how impossible it was.

                    it may not be probable based on our current understanding

                    Yes, I know, I already said you have religious faith.

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      I do not have to prove you wrong. That is not how the burden of proof works. You have to prove yourself right.

      You’re the one disagreeing with him, you have to justify why you’re disagreement is the correct answer.

      You can’t just say you’re right and wave your hands around and expect people to believe it.