Sen. John Fetterman campaigned as a progressive. In his U.S. Senate run, he first dethroned incumbent Conor Lamb in the Democratic primary and then overcame a stroke to defeat the GOP’s Mehme…
Help us take this progressive momentum to the ballot box," he once wrote. While pitching a profile in The Atlantic, he posted that “progressive rhetoric is great but progressive results are 💯”. In one tweet he described himself as a “progressive champion.” “My dude, I’m a progressive democrat,” he admonished Jeb Bush. “Progressive. Simple. Sacred,” he said. “Progressive values have been the heart of my campaign.” He promised to be “a solid progressive backstop for PA” and talked of his “progressive vision” for the state. In another: “we have started a progressive movement here in Pennsylvania. It’s not going away.”
That was before being elected.
And now:
Alas, it is going away. Today Fetterman declared “I’m not a progressive” in an interview with NBC News, explaining why he is turning right on immigration, Israel, and other matters in the news.
He did have a massive stroke tho, and it’s not unheard of for those to drastically change a person’s personality.
But regardless of if he was lying to get elected, or did have a personality change due to the stroke…
His recent statements on various policies make it clear he’s not a progressive, and we should stop calling him one.
No matter how many times lawyers for the DNC say primaries aren’t real elections and they can nominate whoever they want regardless of outcome…
Right now it’s still just a threat, and they’re still holding primaries even if they influence them
So it would seem obvious they were referring to voting him out in the next primary, assuming the DNC doesn’t go full Republican by then and refuse primaries for any incumbent and not just presidents.
You know what else changes a Person of Politics’ ideas? The seeming virus of the suddenly vulnerable status quo. There’s a weird, long history of “progressive” and “good” politicians suddenly and seemingly inexplicably turning from ex-Green Party member/socially conscious senators to right wing voters on the senate floor when democrats are finally gonna live up to what they say!
It’s soooo weird and totally unrelated that there’s always ONE (or two…or however many are necessary for the current makeup of the senate) suddenly going back on what they said they believed in.
So weird. Oh well. I guess it’s just a crazy coincidence!
That was before being elected.
And now:
He did have a massive stroke tho, and it’s not unheard of for those to drastically change a person’s personality.
But regardless of if he was lying to get elected, or did have a personality change due to the stroke…
His recent statements on various policies make it clear he’s not a progressive, and we should stop calling him one.
He supports Isreal. Any and all good will this asshole has earned is dead. Vote him out.
Vote him out in favour of who? Is there some third party option that is viable?
No matter how many times lawyers for the DNC say primaries aren’t real elections and they can nominate whoever they want regardless of outcome…
Right now it’s still just a threat, and they’re still holding primaries even if they influence them
So it would seem obvious they were referring to voting him out in the next primary, assuming the DNC doesn’t go full Republican by then and refuse primaries for any incumbent and not just presidents.
You know what else changes a Person of Politics’ ideas? The seeming virus of the suddenly vulnerable status quo. There’s a weird, long history of “progressive” and “good” politicians suddenly and seemingly inexplicably turning from ex-Green Party member/socially conscious senators to right wing voters on the senate floor when democrats are finally gonna live up to what they say!
It’s soooo weird and totally unrelated that there’s always ONE (or two…or however many are necessary for the current makeup of the senate) suddenly going back on what they said they believed in.
So weird. Oh well. I guess it’s just a crazy coincidence!