After a week of protests that have only been escalating in violence, finally, Senator Bernie Sanders finally had something to say about the protests, unlike the still-silent Hillary Clinton and President Obama.

But Sanders, the author of a brand new book published this week called, interestingly enough, Our Revolution, didn’t denounce the protests. He didn’t reject the violence and destruction – in fact, he didn’t address that part at all.

In an interview with USA Today (video below) he said:

We have a First Amendment. People are angry. People are upset. And they want to express their point of view that they are very frightened, in very, very strong disagreement with Mr. Trump, who has made bigotry the cornerstone of his campaign. His attitude toward women is reprehensible… Someone that thinks the people of one of the largest religions on Earth, the Muslim religion, should not be able to enter the American people, just absurd.

I think that people are saying, ‘Mr. Trump, we have come too far in this country fighting discrimination and bigotry. We’re not going back. And if you’re going to continue that effort, you’re going to have to take us on.’ …

And that wasn’t all he had to say. Sanders also denounced the electoral college.

We may want to take a look at the whole Electoral College, which is seating a man for president who didn’t get the most votes. This is something we need a serious discussion on. This campaign revolved around 15 states of the country, right? Battleground states. My state of Vermont is a strong Democratic state; no one paid attention. Wyoming is a Republican state; nobody paid attention to Wyoming. Is that a good way?

I think you ought to think about this. … I think we want to rethink that.

Of course, if we’re talking about areas that would be ignored in a popular vote, I gue...

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