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Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance
The Associated Press ^ | March 9, 2025 | BY STEVE PEOPLES

Posted on 03/10/2025 4:41:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn.

He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9,000 people had shown up for the rally.

“What all of this tells me, is not just in Michigan or in Vermont, the people of this country will not allow us to move toward oligarchy. They will not allow Trump to take us into authoritarianism,” Sanders yelled. “We’re prepared to fight. And we’re going to win.”

In tearing into Trump’s seizure of power and warning about the consequences of firing tens of thousands of government workers, Sanders is bucking the wishes of those who want Democrats to focus on the price of eggs or “roll over and play dead.”

For now, at least, Sanders stands alone as the only elected progressive willing to mount a national campaign to harness the fear and anger of the sprawling anti-Trump movement.

Since losing the White House, Democrats across Washington have struggled to coalesce behind a consistent message or messenger to stop Trump’s aggressive moves to slash the government workforce, weaken federal oversight and empower tech titan Elon Musk to execute his vision.

There has been no centralized movement to organize the anti-Trump resistance.

“You look around — who else is doing it? No one,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said of Sanders’ efforts. “My hope is that the dam will break in terms of Democrats going on the offense ... We need to take the argument directly to the people.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernie; berniesanders; communists; democrats; journalism; marxism; media; press; sanders; socialism
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1 posted on 03/10/2025 4:41:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whatever you say INGSOC Associated Press.


2 posted on 03/10/2025 4:43:58 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It looks like they had to roll steps in for that old codger to get in the bed of that pickup truck.


3 posted on 03/10/2025 4:44:08 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Everyone knows what this old grifter is about by now.


4 posted on 03/10/2025 4:49:53 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"There has been no centralized movement to organize the anti-Trump resistance."

These babbling fool Democrats and journalists don't have a clue. "Anti-Trump" is irrelevant. The way to win elections, even those against Trump (for which there will never be any more elections), is to promote a positive agenda. Few rational voters care what you are AGAINST. People generally want to vote for the things you support.

5 posted on 03/10/2025 4:56:25 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Please, oh please, let Mr future husk be the candidate.
Bring it.


6 posted on 03/10/2025 4:56:54 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tight shot of the...snort...huge crowd...

🤣🤣🤣🤣


7 posted on 03/10/2025 4:57:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think he was a major complainer about people not accepting election results.


8 posted on 03/10/2025 4:58:04 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Leadership?

Yeah. Bernie Sanders is the guy who took his payoff from the Democrats to take a dive against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democrat primary.

9 posted on 03/10/2025 5:01:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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This only shows how far the Dems have fallen. This old Commie is all they got left. Leadership needs to be disbanded to enjoy their wealth on their huge yachts. Dems—you need new leaders! You need a new, untarnished Obama—a good speaker, a good leader. A wavy haired movie star like-dude. No Gays, No, race mixes, a good solid leader—like JFK or FDR. A War Hero would be nice.


10 posted on 03/10/2025 5:07:06 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wonderful article. Oh, please, let the resistance coalesce around a far left candidate whose opinions are widely spread among the main stream media. Keep the craziness coming and raise the anti-Trump candidate to the highest visibility. We NEED to increase our numbers in 2026.


11 posted on 03/10/2025 5:08:04 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FYI - Warren is Michigan’s 2nd most populated city, heavy manufacturing, heavy union, heavy dem etc. It is not the place it was when most of us were born, during WWII it was part of “The Arsenal of Democracy” and to this day you can see remnants of the Warren Tank Plant, rowhouses for workers and other pieces of history.


12 posted on 03/10/2025 5:12:26 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Did you guys see the lyrics to the song a performer was singing at his rally? The one about “does your god have a big fat …..”? Imagine if that was a song about Puerto Rico. AP would’ve gone nuts right?


13 posted on 03/10/2025 5:13:12 AM PDT by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP = Absolute Propaganda


14 posted on 03/10/2025 5:13:13 AM PDT by JoeVortex (I'm rather enjoying the trips around the Sun I have left!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bernie Sanders via megaphone 📣 , sounds torturous .


15 posted on 03/10/2025 5:16:22 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...warning about the consequences of firing tens of thousands of government workers...”

They are NOT workers, they are employees. The last thing they actually do is work, unless it’s to undermine and steal from the American tax payer.

Tens of thousands fired, is not enough. It needs to be in the millions. /spit


16 posted on 03/10/2025 5:18:04 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: mac_truck

working on house # 4, if this is somewhat true the followers of last who got screwed by Bernie twice want to get screwed again. What’s not to look up to, Bernie got his real and only job at 40 working for the government. Hes a commie grifter jim


17 posted on 03/10/2025 5:22:24 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A Socialist with 3 mansions


18 posted on 03/10/2025 5:22:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Drawing huge crowds

AP = Always Propaganda

19 posted on 03/10/2025 5:24:52 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

I was thinking forklift.


20 posted on 03/10/2025 5:29:08 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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