Speaking at Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Conference on Friday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), running for president, launched a fusillade of epithets targeting President Trump, calling him a racist, sexist, homophobic xenophobe who is a religious bigot. Sanders started by citing “institutional racism” in America, seemingly blaming the electoral losses of Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum and Ben Jealous on that, then segued to attacking the president. He started:
And in that last election, we saw great campaigns run for governor by Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum and Ben Jealous. They lost, but Mandela Barnes and Garland Gilchrist became the first elected black lieutenant governors in Wisconsin and Michigan: real progress. So we have made some progress, but clearly all of us recognize that we have a long way to go to end the institutional racism which permeates almost every aspect of American society. And that is the bad news that keeps us up at night.
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