Bernie Sanders has often said that he’s a Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democrat and that’s how he has conducted himself over his long and distinguished career of public service spent fighting for the interests of the working people of this country. Bernie’s held in such high esteem by his colleagues that they’ve made him part of the Democratic Party leadership in the U.S. Senate.
When apparently embittered columnist Katy Burns proceeds to foam at the mouth blaming Democratic and independent voters of New Hampshire who supported Bernie Sanders for simultaneously causing the rise of President Donald J. Trump and the downfall of American democracy, she’s rightly perceived as being unhinged. Burns’s patronizing diatribe against the people of this state for exercising their right to vote and her perniciously false portrayal of Sen. Sanders, as well as her pathetic attempt to completely dismiss the influence of his transformational 2016 campaign, only succeeds in shredding her own credibility.
Burns has proven in this case to be as contemptuous of the facts and the truth as any Trump cultist. She’s provoking a divisiveness benefiting Trump the authoritarian demagogue who won’t be defeated by a divided Democratic Party.
A New Yorker article set the record straight that Bernie, recognizing the real threat Trump represents to American ideals and values, campaigned tirelessly for Hillary Clinton. A higher percentage of his supporters voted for her in the general election than her voters backed President Barack Obama in 2008.
By the way, Bernie Sanders is a New Englander who’s already home and always welcome whenever he’s here in New Hampshire.
JOHN S. HANCOCK
Concord