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"I'm not a progressive," says Sen. John Fetterman, elected while often saying he was a progressive (boingboing.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/pennsylvania
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[โ€“] givesomefucks 70 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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 ๐Ÿ’ฏ". 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.

[โ€“] Caradoc879 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

He supports Isreal. Any and all good will this asshole has earned is dead. Vote him out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Vote him out in favour of who? Is there some third party option that is viable?

[โ€“] givesomefucks 8 points 11 months ago

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.

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