Sanders: Dem Establishment Didn’t Want to Open the Door for People with Dirty Hands and Without PhD’s

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SANDERS: "The hatred that we felt in 2016, 2020 from the Democratic establishment, I'll give you an example. We would do rallies and we'd have thousands of people, often young people, people of color coming out, working class people coming out. They were great, full of energy. And then we go to Democratic Party events and there'd be a few hundred people, mostly older, whiter, wealthier. And you saw the clash. And they, the establishment did not want to open the door. They hated the idea that all these people whose hands were a little bit dirty, who didn’t have PhDs or weren’t wealthy, imagine walking into, 'It's my party, man. You ain't getting in. We will fight you in the most ruthless ways that we can. And that’s the the struggle. Are they gonna open the door or are they prepared to lose elections, literally, and maintain — go down with the Titanic?"