Sanders Backs AOC For 2028. The Radical Left’s Grip On Democrats Tightens.

Bernie Sanders let the cat out of the bag yesterday.

In an interview with Axios, he said what I think we’ve all been thinking: that AOC is almost certainly going to run for president in 2028 — with the backing of Bernie Sanders.

“She is an incredibly intelligent person and in the best sense of the word, a very, very good politician,” he declared. “I’ve been out on the streets where the people come up and how she responds to people is so incredibly genuine and open, you know, it’s just something. That’s a gift that she has. It’s a quality that she has. She’s a great speaker out there. She comes from the working class. She was a kid who was cleaning houses with her mother. She knows what it’s like not to have any money. And she’s going out fighting for working families all over this country. And I think as a young person who six years ago was a waitress, becoming politically prominent has been incredibly inspiring.”

She’s not inspiring.

To the wild Left, however, she is inspiring.

Sure, she is a dunderhead who says unintelligent things every five seconds.

But Bernie Sanders is also a dunderhead, and he’s been able to get away with it for 2,000 decades at this point. I believe he was a contemporaneous follower of Methuselah.

Sanders has taken over the Democratic Party wholesale at this point.

They are moving further and further to the Left. And one of his chosen acolytes is Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat running for the Senate who leads in the polls by leaps and bounds.

According to new reporting from our own Luke Rosiak:

Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner was a member of a radical Left group whose members have been linked to a slew of attacks, including an assault on an ICE facility that was designated a terrorist attack this month as part of a crackdown on Antifa.

Maine’s Democrat Senate primary was upended after CNN reported that Platner had called himself a “communist” in posts on the Reddit forum r/SocialistRA, where he wrote that if people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history.”

The forum name refers to the Socialist Rifle Association, a group whose members have been repeatedly linked to violent political crimes.

On July 4, a group of militants allegedly swarmed law enforcement at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas and “opened fire at the unarmed DHS correctional officers.” One of them, Benjamin Hanil Song, is charged with shooting a police officer in the neck. Song was a member of the Socialist Rifle Association’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter, a fellow group member told KERA.

Last week, the Department of Justice charged two suspects in that attack, Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts, with providing material support to terrorists, calling their crew an “Antifa Cell.” It was the first use of the terrorism statute against domestic extremists since Trump ordered a crackdown on far-left political violence. Arnold, like the founders of the Socialist Rifle Association, is transgender and goes by the name Autumn Hill.

Membership in the Socialist Rifle Association isn’t required for users to post on the Reddit forum. But a New England publication, the Robinson Report, revealed that Platner explicitly described his membership in the group.

“Check out the Maine SRA chapter, we’re quite active,” he wrote in April 2020. In August 2020, he said “my local SRA chapter” does “lots of range days, firearms education classes, and developing mutual aid networks in our community.”

Images of the main chapter include a man training in a pink tutu shooting a gun, and one who has facial hair matching Platner’s.

This is a person, a Nazi-tattooed Antifa-training pseudo-man-of-the-people oyster farmer, who went to a $75,000-a-year prep school when he was younger.

And he’s Sanders’ chosen guy in the Senate race in Maine. If the Democrats wish to embrace this sort of radicalism, I do not think the American people will move alongside them.

I know there are a lot of Republicans who are rooting for the socialists to take over the Democratic Party.

I am not.

I’ve been saying this since 2020, when Bernie Sanders was running against Joe Biden. I said I preferred Joe Biden to be the nominee rather than Bernie Sanders, even if Bernie was more likely to lose to Donald Trump.

Why? Because the risk factor in having a socialist leader was higher than the risk factor in having a “dead” leader like Joe Biden.

Even if Joe Biden had slightly higher odds to win the presidency than Bernie Sanders, if I had to calculate the damage that a Bernie Sanders presidency would do versus a Joe Biden presidency, it would be astronomically higher under Bernie Sanders than Joe Biden, no matter how bad Joe Biden was.

I feel the same way about the Democratic Party falling wholesale to the wild-Left democratic socialists. If they do that, it’s true there’s a lower chance that they will win power anytime soon.

But to pretend that chance doesn’t exist is to whistle past the graveyard.

Let’s say, for example, that the Democratic Party has a 40% shot of winning the White House in 2028 right now with some sort of pseudo-moderate, like a Gavin Newsom or a Wes Moore. And let’s say they have a 30% shot of winning the White House with a clear, insane socialist like AOC at the top of the ticket.

The damage that would be done by Wes Moore or Gavin Newsom would be a seven out of ten, and the damage done by an AOC would be a ten out of ten.

I would rather take the low-risk scenario, even if there’s a greater risk that the person might become president, than take the absolutely disastrous apocalyptic scenario of having a Democratic party controlled by the nutjobs.

This is why the rise of the Zohran Mamdani Left is truly, truly troubling.

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