The Democratic party cannot continue to be run “by the liberal elites,” Bernie Sanders tells Stephen Colbert on tonight’s The Late Show.

The once-again-independent Vermont senator insists he is not a member of the liberal elites, while hastening to add they are “good, well meaning people – they’re not my enemies, they’re partners of ours.”

“But the party has got to transform itself to be a party which, first of all, opens the door, that is the party that feels the pain of working-class people, of the middle class, of low-income people, of young people … that brings people into the party,” Sanders said.

“On virtually every issue I talk about … the vast majority of the American people are on our side. [President-elect Donald] Trump’s views are a minority. People do not think we should give tax breaks to billionaires,” he insisted.

“They do believe we should raise the minimum wage and have pay equity for women. They do believe we should make public colleges and universities tuition free. So our job, right now, and this is terribly important at this moment….What you do now is get heavily involved in the political process. When millions of people stand up and fight back we will not be denied.”

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