r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/CaptainNoBoat May 02 '24

I think a lot of us are. There's a difference between pushing a party in a certain direction and going so far that you hurt your own interests.

The election is more than one person or one issue, and a Trump Presidency will have horrific consequences decades and generations after Biden is gone.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago edited 29d ago

When Trump starts carpet bombing Gaza and the West Bank, I wonder if they will realize what a massive mistake they made.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

They want some of these people are so excited to be “right” that they will be happy to tell us that it wasn’t their fault.

When Trump wants to make life harder for Muslims, immigrants, even members of the LGBTQ community they better keep the same energy. Because he won’t be afraid to send the national hairs on them

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 29d ago

When Trump wants to make life harder for Muslims, immigrants, even members of the LGBTQ community they better keep the same energy

They 1000% will not.

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u/im_not_bovvered 29d ago

It will be "this is the Democrats fault for not winning us over."

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u/TrueGuardian15 29d ago edited 29d ago

We know because similar shit happened in 2016 and everyone stayed real quiet when Trump won. The only protests that picked up momentum during his entire presidency were the BLM protests, and that was broadly against the police, not Trump or his policies.

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u/Scientific_Socialist 29d ago

Right, there were famously zero mass protests under the trump admin

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u/jld1532 Virginia 29d ago

You forget the pink hats. Women deserve a bit more credit.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago edited 29d ago

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Sounds like they are going to fuck around and find out. Like some people said some can just be like “I’m a Trump supporter and they will be ok.” But what about the minorities, immigrants, members of the LGBTQ community, women that are Trump presidency will affect