Bernie Sanders Shows the Difference Between Tea Party and Progressive Protests
Many pundits have started to draw similarities between the Tea Party protests in 2009 and the progressive protests that have erupted this year – but Senator Bernie Sanders is proving that they aren’t the same.
“It’s not a tea party because the Tea Party was essentially funded by the billionaire Koch brothers,” Sanders said on Sunday during NBC’s Meet the Press. “This is a spontaneous and grass-roots uprising of the American people.”
Sanders predicted demonstrations will continue to grow, particularly over the threatened repeal of the Affordable Care Act. In a letter Saturday, he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for rallies in support of Obamacare on Feb. 25.
“I think you’re going to see people in conservative areas, in progressive areas, asking the Republicans: ‘What are you going to do when you throw 23 million people off of health insurance?’” Sanders said.
“How many of them are going to die? Are you really going to repeal the protection against pre-existing conditions so that people who have cancer or heart disease will no longer be able to have health insurance? You going to throw kids off of their parents’ health insurance programs?”
During the same interview, Bernie Sanders slams Trump for failing to drain the swamp. Watch it here.
