Bernie Sanders has always been the politician of note when it comes to calling out things that people in his position usually have too many quid pro quo relationships to blurt out. Recently, Sanders took stock of Trump’s tenure so far and asked why no one in the Republican Party will just come out and call his authoritarian rule for what it is.
The recent federalization of the National Guard in California has slowly become Trump’s final straw in a lot of people’s psyche. The news cycle moves so fast these days, and with that comes the inability to properly take everything in perspective. Bernie Sanders, however—always one to go against the grain — took to X to talk about how Trump has been suing the media, investigating universities that don’t do his bidding, and even recently flirted with the idea of arresting the democratically elected governor of California.
