Sen. Bernie Sanders also demanded “fundamental reforms” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, saying they are “terrorizing” US communities.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday demanded the removal of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller—a key architect of Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation campaign—as well as concrete reforms in exchange for any new funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In remarks on the Senate floor, Sanders (I-Vt.) called ICE a “domestic military force” that is “terrorizing” communities across the country. The senator pointed specifically to the agency’s ongoing activities in Minnesota and Maine, where officers have committed horrific—and deadly—abuses.
Sanders said that “not another penny should be given” to ICE or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “unless there are fundamental reforms in how those agencies function—and until there is new leadership at the Department of Homeland Security and among those who run our immigration policy.” The senator has proposed repealing a $75 billion ICE funding boost that the GOP approved last summer, an end to warrantless arrests, the unmasking of ICE and CBP agents, and more.
If he had a chance of winning we would’ve seen more progressives getting elected outside of blue states since he ran.
Not necessarily, if you don’t live or have lived in rural areas. Change comes ar a snails pace.
Those areas voted for Trump. Nowhere near the left side of the spectrum
They voted for Trump because he was promising a radical shake up in the government. They were down with that idea because the status quo for the last 3 decades has been garbage for common folk.
You know who else was promising a radical shake up? Bernie. I lived in red ass Iowa at the time he was running, and everyone I talked to on both sides of the spectrum loved him. He even won the primary there.
Yes, my MAGA family supported me for supporting Bernie. He didn’t have the widespread opposition like Hillary. He would have been a fine president.
Don’t pretend you know why they voted for Trump.
Every MAGAT I know would never vote for Bernie. Pretending otherwise is pure copium.
These dip shit cynics need to either stfu or leave the Democratic party. Your perspective is litterally why we can’t beat the fascists.
They’re called voters and they have communicated clearly through the election process that the majority of them are in the middle of the ideological spectrum and not interested in voting left of center. If leftists don’t wake up to that fact they will continue to lose elections.
Im talking about you, not voters.
You don’t speak for voters and you clearly don’t understand them.
The election results speak for the voters and I am just pointing out how the election results contradict your feelings of what voters want.
Trump won 2016 on a platform of anti-establishment populism, and widespread dislike of Hilary Clinton. He would have lost both of those advantages running against Bernie.
The only things he would have had left would be reactionary sensationalism, narcissistic sociopathy, jingo-nationalism, libertarian capitalist cronyism, racism, sexism, xenophonia, and homophobia.
And while those things might have had a strong hold on a concerningly large portion of the american populace, it would have been fairly niche and certainly not enough to have won an election that was already close as it was.
Trump won 2016 and 2024 because he has the Kremlin propaganda machine working for him. That’s why he has a cult following.
That too. Reactionary sensationalist populism is the modus operandi of kremlin-based foreign political interference
Even as you do exactly that, lol. I looked at your post and moderation history; you have a thing for making sweeping proclamations based on nothing but the crust on your right buttcheek. Yeah, no. Blocked.
Stay in your safe place
It’s litterally those places Bernie was winning in 2016.
The profundness of the idiocy people have trying to winnow politics down to a single dimension of left versus right.
Voters who ended up going for Trump in the general were sick of the anti democratic status quo. Voters who went for Bernie in the primary were sick of the anti democratic status quo.
By forcing Hillary down the throat of the voters, the DNC fueled Trump’s base.
Go search “why Trump voters vote for AOC” or “why Trump voters vote for mamdani”.
You already losing us voters with this myopic view of how people dev their political identity
No I saw a lot of former Bernie bros switch their vote to trump after Hillary got nominated. That’s how pissed they were at the system.
Out of the hundreds of Bernie bros I know I don’t know a single Bernie bro that voted for Trump.
If these imaginary people were tricked into voting for Trump so easily then they will easily be tricked again the next election cycle.
He was very popular in the Midwest. It’s the northeast Dem elites that rejected him
He was popular in Omaha and Lincoln. Everywhere else he didn’t have a chance.
You clearly proven you don’t know what you’re talking about and have never been in a rural area
I have definitely been to rural Nebraska and that is what I am basing my statements on.
The reason the “blue dot” exists is because the rest of Nebraska is red. Which is the rural areas. This is verifiable and it contradicts what you are saying.
This proves you are making shit up.
Wrong. He won in wider margins in grand island, northwest and southeast he won where factories are not corporate interests
“Won” what?
Those same people would have voted for Trump 4 and/or 8 years after a Bernie victory
Quite littlerally:
Mamdani went down to the street after the Democrats failed in 2024. He asked voters who had voted for Trump “why?”
He structured his campaign on the top three answers to the question “why?”, albeit, in a democratic socialist fashion.
He won the Trump voters back.
Exactly, they’re feckless. They don’t have any core beliefs.
If Bernie wins after Obama, the GOP is dead for good, no more majorities. The supreme Court goes left, no Trump picks. Hence no dictatorship