Bernie Sanders: ‘If You Don’t Have Any Borders, You Don’t Have a Nation’
Neil Munro24 Oct 2025323
“If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation,” far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders told a far-left audience on the Tim Dillon show.
“[Donald] Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border,” he said on October 22. “It ain’t that hard to do. [Joe] Biden didn’t do it.”
Sanders’ support for borders is a minority view within the Democratic Party, which is now dominated by a cohort of anti-border progressives who prefer to empathize with foreigners than with their fellow citizens.
The younger progressives have pushed Sanders away from his prior defense of borders, partly because Sanders needs their support in his national campaigns.
In 2015, Sanders dismissed a progressive demand for open borders: “Open borders?” No, that’s a Koch brothers proposal.”
