Sanders to Trump: 'There are no nice Nazis' [View all]

Source: The Washington Post




By David Weigel August 23 at 2:48 AM

DETROIT — At a town hall meeting that occasionally had the feel of a campaign rally, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opened a new line of attack against the president’s Charlottesville reaction, while urging activists to stay inside the Democratic Party.

“We have a president who was equivocal — nice people on both sides!” said Sanders in a nighttime event at Fellowship Chapel Church. “No! There are no nice Nazis!”

More than 2,000 people had streamed into the church to hear Sanders and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) pitch the vague outlines of a Medicare-for-all plan that progressives expect to rally around next month. Voters left the meeting after hearing about far more than health care — from Conyers’s full employment bill, to the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan, to whether agri-business was a corrupting influence on health care.

Toward the end, a 33-year-old metal designer named Scott Devey asked Sanders whether the Democratic and Republican parties were simply too far gone, and if he could help found a third party.

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