Summary
In a guest editorial published by PennLive, Cumberland County Democratic Party chair Matt Roan called for Senator John Fetterman’s resignation.
He accused Fetterman of abandoning Democratic values and aligning with Republicans and Trump.
Roan criticized Fetterman’s votes to confirm Trump ally Pam Bondi as attorney general and support a GOP-backed funding bill, as well as his pro-Israel stance and backing of immigration restrictions.
Speculation about Fetterman switching parties intensified after his meeting with Trump, but he denied plans to become a Republican, insisting he remains committed to Democratic priorities.
Only two years too late! Great job everyone
I mean, I’d still take him over Dr. Fucking Oz.
Oh for sure, this leads us back to the real issue at hand which is democrats choosing the most unfit, corrupt, or republican candidate they can run in any election that is being used as a “referendum on extremism” see henry cuellar in Texas for this same exact scenario in even more explicit terms
Fetterman should’ve never been allowed in the party. If they truly believed in progressive values instead of optics and looking “moderate” someone with actual, tangible values would have been chosen to run. Anyone with the party machinery to run oppo research on fetterman should have said then and there that he has proven himself antithetical to progressivism. His behaviors both personally and in office are incompatible with the stated desires of the people he was chosen to represent AND his own claimed political beliefs. They just chose to keep it hidden and lean into “common sense.”
There are plenty of people in Philly that could have blown the doors off dr oz and actually delivered for the state in congress. Not that Fetterman was worse than dr oz, he was just the literal next worst option there was. THAT is why he got the campaign money and not anyone who was going to argue against the DNC.
Everyone let themselves be fooled into believing the dems were trying to move the needle. It would have made no difference if they just said “this guy is basically a republican but you’re gonna have to vote him in bc the other option is dr oz.” But they decided it would look better if he campaigned as a progressive and then betrayed that constituency once in office.
Watch the NYC mayoral race closely, you see the same happening again. Propping up a proven sexual abuser with the money and media coverage and organizing power from the Democrat institutions just to destroy the campaign of a open socialist running to pass laws to benefit real new york workers. All because Cuomo would be running against Eric adams in an almost guaranteed loss for adams. Its disgusting. This is how fascism won.
Idk what to do but call it out for what it is. We have to build an entirely separate power structure for real candidates like Zohran to make sure people like us have the backing to win these races against democrats in their own strongholds. All the political power and will is unified against allowing truly progressive candidates to run. Until there is a new national workers party fundraising for working class candidates we won’t see anything but more neoliberal-centrist “progressives” who vote to continue the orphan crushing machine out of loyalty to the structure and utter lack of loyalty to any constituency.
Sorry for the rant, I’m just attempting to make a record of my frantic screams as water fills the lower decks
Also I mean, most of the anti-Fetterman sentiment is pure hindsight. There were clues that he was a douchebag, but he did well to present himself as progressive and relatable. It’s not like most people expected the heel turn. I, for one, was very happy to see someone other than a boring corporate Democrat as the front runner.
Exactly, that’s my whole point. We got duped because we really let ourselves believe the candidate the DNC chose was going to actually be progressive. Hindsight shows we were wrong to believe in his campaign but it also shows the democratic party knew full well what they were doing when they put the establishment behind his campaign specifically
In the fervour of trying to ensure an absolute crank like Dr. Oz wasn’t allowed to hold office we all collectively bet the house on democrats meeting the moment and putting forward a progressive. In reality, they saw the moment for what it was and used that opportunity to get a slam dunk institutional stooge into a seat for 6 years.
The problem isn’t that we were duped, the problem is that we were made to believe anything other than a heel turn was the desired outcome. He was selected specifically for his ability to fake being progressive and have zero shame when confronted about it.
We cant take their word for it anymore, if your candidate isn’t openly a socialist they might as well be a republican. Until our institutions work for us we cannot rely on them to do the work to get there. Go look at the zohran mamdani campaign and what they are advocating for to see what an actually progressive campaign looks like so you don’t get duped ever again. If your candidate doesn’t talk like THIS you are being lied to about their beliefs.