'I'm not a progressive': Fetterman breaks with the left, showing a maverick side - eviltoast
  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Why does everyone act like this guy is some every man Savior? He’s a silver spoon baby with a trust fund who can’t even be bothered to dress like a professional adult. I’ve never liked the guy, always had a phony vibe to him

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      He was a lib who actually put effort into a campaign and built up a coalition of voters around essentially the progressivish platform that Biden had promised as his compromise with Sanders.

      For many Fetterman represented an actual movement of the Democratic party away from the neoliberal establishment status quo. His campaign largely felt like it proved that being such a break from the DNC norm.

      So he has been a real bummer.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        We should start running fake centrists. They’ll get party support and will only have to fight one party instead of two. Then when they get into office, they can start supporting progressive causes they didn’t run on.

        And watch the party’s policy of defending incumbents against primary challengers instantly evaporate into nothingness.