Senator Fetterman joins Truth Social, Denounces Trump NY Trial
https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/fetterman-joins-truth-social-calls-for-trump-to-be-pardoned-in-bulls-hush-money-case-senator-john-fetterman-trump-media-new-york-trial-pardon
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I moved from a town in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area in West Virginia, that sat on the border, to Pittsburgh. I can drive back in under a hour if I wanted to. My senator in WV was Joe Manchin, who was pretty much the median point between the Democrats and Republicans. He survived in a state notorious for trying really hard to impeach every Democrat on the WV Supreme Court (most of the little F'ers rejected their inpeachment and stayed). So Manchin had to strike a very delicate balance and stay. During the last election I was in WV, my county for the first time swung blue to red. In this most recent election, the neighboring counties in PA turned red as well. This is coincidentally Fetterman county.
So Fetterman is in the same place as Senator Manchin was.... he has to default be a moderate, not a party extremist. Far left politics is suicidal in a working class part of the country, absolutely nobody wants the racism and hate that comes from it.
This is the political median. It be like a republican in a district trending liberal having to adopt the least threatening liberal ideas while playing to his base. It will involve a steong dose of populism in Fetterman's case, unlike Manchin who played more of a PR angle (one of the reasons my old county rejected him) instead of backing local populism.
The region is ground zero for western PA turning red. Any liberal ideals that survive will have to jump on this bandwagon over time, but for the moment, as far as America goes, Fetterman is about as politically neutral as it gets. He's still a leftist, but he has to play for both teams from now on. He culturally doesn't feel very close to San Francisco or Washington. He outright rejected the antisemitism of the left, which is a gut instinct for the region that wants nothing to do with it. It's a region that wants nothing to do with bizarre liberal bull. One of the reasons the governor was rejected for Kamala's VP. We just don't want anything to do with any of it. Doesn't enter into our equation or outlook.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow
I moved from a town in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area in West Virginia, that sat on the border, to Pittsburgh. I can drive back in under a hour if I wanted to. My senator in WV was Joe Manchin, who was pretty much the median point between the Democrats and Republicans. He survived in a state notorious for trying really hard to impeach every Democrat on the WV Supreme Court (most of the little F'ers rejected their inpeachment and stayed). So Manchin had to strike a very delicate balance and stay. During the last election I was in WV, my county for the first time swung blue to red. In this most recent election, the neighboring counties in PA turned red as well. This is coincidentally Fetterman county.
So Fetterman is in the same place as Senator Manchin was.... he has to default be a moderate, not a party extremist. Far left politics is suicidal in a working class part of the country, absolutely nobody wants the racism and hate that comes from it.
This is the political median. It be like a republican in a district trending liberal having to adopt the least threatening liberal ideas while playing to his base. It will involve a steong dose of populism in Fetterman's case, unlike Manchin who played more of a PR angle (one of the reasons my old county rejected him) instead of backing local populism.
The region is ground zero for western PA turning red. Any liberal ideals that survive will have to jump on this bandwagon over time, but for the moment, as far as America goes, Fetterman is about as politically neutral as it gets. He's still a leftist, but he has to play for both teams from now on. He culturally doesn't feel very close to San Francisco or Washington. He outright rejected the antisemitism of the left, which is a gut instinct for the region that wants nothing to do with it. It's a region that wants nothing to do with bizarre liberal bull. One of the reasons the governor was rejected for Kamala's VP. We just don't want anything to do with any of it. Doesn't enter into our equation or outlook.
