Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Democrats Are ‘Way Out of Touch’

So the key to you is the Democratic Party needs to tell a story and implement policy. I know you talk about the “Democratic Party.” David, who are you talking about? I’m talking about the leadership of the party —— And who are the leadership, the leadership of the party right now? I mean, this is the struggle that when I ran in 2016, right. What I said is open the bloody doors —— Meaning? Meaning, let working class people in with all of their flaws. They may have said something 28 years ago they regret saying. Open the door. Open the door to young people. Open the door to people of color —— As candidates you mean. As candidates, as participants. I was in West Virginia. I don’t know if you know this. I went to West Virginia two months ago, I went to a county in West Virginia which voted for Trump. OK, we had hundreds of people coming out. Unbelievable what I heard. Decent, hard- working, good people. Did you know there is no Democratic Party, basically, in West Virginia? The party’s given up. Yeah, it’s not only West Virginia. It’s state after state after state. Democratic Party has abdicated, given up. They’re not fighting for the working class, and it’s not there. What the Democratic Party has been is a billionaire-funded, consultant-driven party, way out of touch with where the working class of this country is.