Bernie Sanders Blasts Democratic Party: ‘Abandoned Working-Class People’

On Wednesday morning, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued a fiery statement denouncing the modern Democratic Party after its landslide loss to former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

As the New York Post reports, Sanders posted a lengthy written statement on X, with the caption in the post saying “it should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

“While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change,” Sanders continued. “And they’re right.”

In the full written statement, Sanders saying that “first, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

Among other things, Sanders pointed out the ongoing crushing impact of inflation on the average American, pointing out that, “while the rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck…Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.”

“Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents,” the socialist senator continued.

“And many of them worry that artificial intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse,” said Sanders, referencing the rise in automation in blue-collar and factory work that risks putting even more Americans out of a job.

Although Sanders’ statement also touched upon foreign policy, including what he describes as “funding the extremist Netanyahu government” in Israel amidst their ongoing war against the Islamic terror group Hamas, his statement primarily focused on domestic issues, particularly the state of the economy and the working class.

His sentiments echoed a much shorter, but very similar statement he made in the aftermath of the 2016 election, where he simply said “I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to the people where I came from.”

Sanders ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in both 2016 and 2020. In 2016, he narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton, due in large part to “superdelegates” who pledged to support the establishment candidate over the populist outsider. In 2020, Sanders won the first three primaries against a large and divided Democratic field, before a series of coordinated candidate withdrawals and endorsements led to an artificial coalescing of the field around Joe Biden, who went on to defeat Sanders in the head-to-head matchup.