--- title: Bernie Sanders: Brexit Proves Donald Trump Is a Huge Danger description: A new oped by the Democratic candidate blasts Trump's policies canonical: https://time.com/4386489/bernie-sanders-nyt-democrats-poverty/ author: IDEAS Desk article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-28T23:35:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:55:18.350Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Bernie Sanders Says Brexit Shows Donald Trump Is a Danger og:description: A new oped by the Democratic candidate blasts Trump's policies og:url: https://time.com/4386489/bernie-sanders-nyt-democrats-poverty/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bernie Sanders Says Brexit Shows Donald Trump Is a Danger twitter:description: A new oped by the Democratic candidate blasts Trump's policies twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bernie Sanders Says Brexit Should 'Sound an Alarm' Against Donald Trump by [IDEAS Desk](https://time.com/author/ideas-desk/) ## IDEAS Desk Jun 28, 2016 11:35 PM UTC by [IDEAS Desk](https://time.com/author/ideas-desk/) ## IDEAS Desk Jun 28, 2016 11:35 PM UTC Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote in the New York [_Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/opinion/campaign-stops/bernie-sanders-democrats-need-to-wake-up.html) that the socioeconomic struggles that mobilized British citizens to vote for their nation to exit the European Union—shocking [their largely wealthier, pro-EU compatriots](https://next.ft.com/content/1ce1a720-ce94-3c32-a689-8d2356388a1f)—live in America, too. He writes in what amounts to a warning to all Americans, but particularly politicians, who discount the importance and realities of those struggling today: --- > “” --- Sanders then details what Americans have seen in recent decades: the decline in available factory jobs, that median wages are less than they were not long ago (for women in particular), widespread poverty and healthcare under-coverage, mounting student debt, and shorter lifespans for the impoverished because of “despair, drugs and alcohol.” Meanwhile, Sanders writes, “Fifty-eight percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. Wall Street billionaires, through their ‘super PACs,’ are able to buy elections.” Sanders warns more specifically specifically against likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, whose campaign he compares to the U.K.’s Leave campaign, splotched with “demagogy, bigotry and anti-immigrant sentiment.” --- > “” --- On the day the Brexit news hit, Sanders told MSNBC [he will vote](http://time.com/4381385/bernie-sanders-vote-hillary-clinton/) for Hillary Clinton; in this column he says “a new Democratic president” can be a bridge-builder for the troubled country. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4386489/bernie-sanders-nyt-democrats-poverty/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4386489/bernie-sanders-nyt-democrats-poverty/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders Says Brexit Should 'Sound an Alarm' Against Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-06-28T23:35:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:55:18.350Z","description":"A new oped by the Democratic candidate blasts Trump's policies","url":"https://time.com/4386489/bernie-sanders-nyt-democrats-poverty/","keywords":["politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"IDEAS Desk","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ideas-desk/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/politics/","name":"politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4386489/bernie-sanders-nyt-democrats-poverty/","name":"Bernie Sanders Says Brexit Should 'Sound an Alarm' Against Donald Trump"}}]}] ```