Bernie Sanders is the most visible democratic socialist in national politics.
I read commentary put out by M.A. Rothman about Bernie Sanders. He reported that Bernie caucuses with the Democrats and has shaped much of the party’s left wing for years.
In a recent interview he was asked what Trump understands about working-class anger that Democrats do not. He did not answer that question.
He said Trump is doing what demagogues have always done. He compared it to what was done to the Jews in Germany. He named the groups he says Trump wants people to blame: undocumented immigrants, trans people, Canadians, and Mexicans.
There is no soft wording. He laid it out in clear terms.
“It’s what demagogues have always done. It’s what they did to the Jews in Germany, right? Come up with an enemy.”
— Senator Bernie Sanders
Asked what Trump understands about working-class anger that Democrats do not, Sanders did not answer the question. He reached for the Holocaust.
He said millions of Americans who cannot afford health care, housing, or prescriptions are being manipulated into blaming undocumented immigrants, trans people, Canadians, and Mexicans instead of billionaires.
A conservative commentator reviewing the clip turned the accusation back on him. How angry are Democrats right now? Look at the protests. How many are living in fear from the rhetoric alone — being told daily that President Trump is a threat to democracy, that MAGA will burn this country down? Who speaks that way? Bernie Sanders and his entire crew.
Then there is the billionaire charge itself. Sanders spent years watching tech and finance billionaires surround Joe Biden’s White House. Jamie Dimon golfed with him. Google and Microsoft chiefs sat on his councils. He said little about demagoguery then. The only thing that changed is whose name is on the door.
Invoking Nazi Germany to score a domestic political point is the kind of casual comparison Holocaust educators have warned against for decades. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has said such comparisons cheapen the actual historical record. Sanders, whose own family lost relatives in the Holocaust, reached for it anyway — against an American president, not a genocidal regime.
He accused Trump of needing an enemy. Then he made Trump his enemy — straight out of the same playbook.
What Are We Supposed to Do With This Information?
Do not brush this off as just another news story. Pay attention.
Again, Bernie Sanders is the leading democratic socialist figure in national politics.
Do not forget what awaits us if this approach gains more power.
Remember that at the ballot box.
“You will know them by their fruits.”
Matthew 7:16
Until Next Time….
Source: M.A. Rothman on X, October 20, 2026.
(citing @devorydarkins)