The fallout from Kamala Harris defeat in the presidential election continues to send shockwaves through the Democratic Party.
And vocal progressive Bernie Sanders is now saying the Democratic Party that he knows is the reason Harris lost.
On Wednesday, Sanders accused the Democratic Party of ignoring the priorities of the working class and pointed to that as the biggest reason for why they lost control of the White House and Senate.
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.
And they’re right. pic.twitter.com/lM2gSJmQFL
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 6, 2024
“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,” Sanders said in a statement about the results of Tuesday’s election.
“While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” he said.
Sanders’s blistering statement is the harshest and most pointed criticism of the Democratic leadership yet in the aftermath of the election, in which Vice President Harris appears to have lost the popular vote by nearly 5 million votes and Democrats lost Senate seats in West Virginia, Montana and Ohio.
Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, said “those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.”
Sanders cited the huge growth in economic inequality in America in recent decades, advanced technologies that threaten to put hundreds of thousands of people out of work, the high cost of health care and U.S. support for the war in Gaza, as the main reasons voters abandoned the Democratic Party.
“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy, which has so much economic power?” Sanders asked.
It should be noted that Sanders won his re-election bid in Vermont handly.