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Rails against ‘cult of the individual’
By Paul Bean
In an interview yesterday (6/29) on MSNBC, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont referred to the Republican Party as a “Stalinist party” and compared Donald Trump to former USSR Dictator Joseph Stalin.
Sen. Sanders’ remarks come amidst ongoing political tensions and the fallout from Senator Thom Tillis’s decision to vote against the Trump-backed ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’
“The Republican Party has not just become a right-wing extremist party. In many cases, it’s become like a Stalinist party, a cult of the individual,” Sanders stated during the interview. “What the party is about now is that Trump says something and if you have an independent thought, if you disagree with Mr. Trump, if you think maybe what he’s proposing doesn’t work for your constituents, you’re out of here.”
Sanders pointed to potential repercussions for those who disagree with Trump, noting, “In five minutes, they will be announcing a primary to your election.”
This comment was in reference to the situation involving Senator Tillis of North Carolina, who recently announced he would not seek re-election after voting against the Big Beautiful Bill supported by President Donald Trump. “So what happened is Tillis thought that this was a bad piece of legislation for North Carolina. He’s right. It was. And the result of that, as Trump said, ‘Good, we’re going to primary you,'” Sanders explained.
“You have the same thing in the House with very few people who are prepared to disagree with Trump. Right now, the Republican Party, people are just afraid to dissent,” Sanders said.
“All you have to do is say, ‘I love President Trump. I will do anything and everything he says.’ Hey, that’s what being a candidate in the Republican Party is today. Pretty pathetic,” Sanders concluded.
“I do not agree with N.C. Senator Thom Tillis on much. But he’s right on this,” Sanders wrote on X yesterday afternoon. “Trump’s Republican Party does not allow for independent thought. The Republican Party today is a cult. Either you do as Trump wants, or you’re out. Pathetic.”
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This coming from the guy that spent his honeymoon in Moscow and loves his travels to Cuba and Nicaragua. I now live in North Carolina and Tillis was going to be in a primary anyway and he knows that he would lose. Tillis is the same type of RINO as Phil Scott. We will elect Laura Trump if she chooses to tun.
Some of the readers here may not realize that when Sanders honeymooned in Moscow and visited Cuba travel there was restricted to friends of the Communist Party only and highly scrutinized
Headline fixed:
Sanders compares Democrats to ‘Satanist party’
One thing Sanders stresses is the threat to primary GOP members that do not vote along GOP lines, the Democrats NEVER threaten to primary Dem Party members or withhold DNC Campaign Funds from their Party members that don’t tow the line? They always do that and have for years!
It’s fascinating to hear this from a man who voted consistently with Democrats, although an independent.
Hmmm – I forget – which party was it that kicked the chosen nominee to the curb, in favor of someone who never recieved even one primary vote???
Particularly rich, coming from the person who, working against the party machine, was beating HRC like a drum in 2016 before backing down at the convention. Now staying in his lane like the good apparatchik he is. Good boy, Bernie.
Sanders is correct. Republicans have lost their ability to think for themselves and question authority; as if they all graduated Trump University.
You mean they are following the Democrats party line of blindly obeying Palosi, Schumer, Clinton, Obama and Soros
Yes, Ron. Exactly like the democrats. Both parties suffer from the same malady. I wonder which party will recognize it and break away from the extremism. For one thing, which party will stop increasing the debt? I used to think it was republicans, but clearly that’s not the case.
This from a man who loved the Soviet Union until he didn’t, he hated millionaires until he didn’t, he loved Obama deporting illegal aliens until he didn’t and loved the idea of Harris as President until she wasn’t. There is only one word for him that comes from a Monty Python skit. That word is “SPLUNGE”.
I thought you were going to accuse him of being a lumberjack ! 🙂
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Could someone tell him that Stalin was a Communist?
oh he knows but your not suppose to remember thing like that.
Interesting being a representative of Vermont. How do you spell Delusional? S A N D E R S. and he doesn’t know it.
Coming from the person who arrived in Vermont over 45 yrs ago fresh from a Stalinesque kibbutz. Is he upset because his agenda has only decimated Vermont? The same guy who honeymooned in Moscow and said the bread lines weren’t that bad. They got bread🤦♀️. He only vacations in communist countries and once had a framed photo of Karl Marx over his desk in city hall. That is his hero. The problem now is that the younger generation think he is wonderful because he says everything will be free. They have NO idea what he really stands for. He is a capitalist of his own making.
Stalinists actually murdered people in the millions. Rounding up prople for summary execution, every night for years. Forced to strip naked and shot in the head. Those were the lucky ones.
Anyone accused of disagreeing with old Joe was sent to Siberia to be worked to death.
Bernie may know this but he’ll never admit it. He’s so full of crap. Comparing that to being primaried. What a clown.
Hey Bernie mitten Sanders it’s time to go and play in the sandbox with AOC !!
What a wasted piece of skin you and your Cronies are!!
Vermont is king of cancel culture, Vt dems can not vote their conscious, they have to vote as they are told. Vt dems are owned by ngos and lobbyists. Self reflective tendencies are apparently very low with sanders.
Maybe this is the ultimate compliment from Bernie?
Certainly sop in the dem party.
THE CULT OF THE INDIVIDUAL???????? Maybe everyone should belong to a group of farm animals.
I want to be part of the more equal pigs…..lol send me more money! I can stop the world from ending, send me more money!! Funny how it’s always money.
Not love, not helping each other out, not being prudent with your life decisions, just send MORE money.
Right, and how many times has Independent Bernie actually voted with the GOP? He doesn’t mention that he has done everything that Jill and Hunter wanted during the previous regime.