Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Lost Touch With Middle Class

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival for the 2016 Democrat presidential nomination, claims that the party stopped listening to its traditional middle/working class constituency in favor of selling out to big-monied interests and that led to its defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.

After a contentious primary, the self-described socialist, who ran for president as a Democrat, endorsed Hillary Clinton on July 12, 2016, in New Hampshire and campaigned for her during the general election season despite the WikiLeaks revelations that suggested that party insiders sought to undermine his campaign all along.

As the nominating convention in Philadelphia was winding down later in July, Sanders announced that he was returning to his roots as a political independent and leaving the Democratic Party upon resuming his day job in the U.S. Senate.

Sanders has vowed to hold the president-elect accountable for his promise that he would leave Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid intact.

In an interview with NPR today, Sanders suggested that the Democrats are out of touch with middle class America, and it needs a new strategy moving forward that involves paying attention to the needs of what he described as the the 99 percent.