Fetterman And The Nasty, Vile Left.
One thing I definitely did not have on my 2025 bingo card was that I would find myself admiring Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
When he was first elected and suffering the debilitating effects of a stroke, he seemed like a Democrat operative who’d been elected via the Biden basement campaign model. Voters didn’t see the extent of his disability until the 11th hour of the campaign.
It seemed fundamentally dishonest to hide Fetterman’s condition from the voting public until it was too late.
But as he healed, Fetterman emerged as an old-school Democrat - albeit in a hoodie and shorts - unafraid to part company with the radical elements in his own party.
He’s an unapologetic supporter of Israel and one of the rare senators that seems to understand that he represents everyone in his state.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Fetterman actually behaved like a normal human and expressed sorrow over the shooting. He urged leftists to let Kirk followers grieve.
Most recently, Fetterman voted 15 times to keep government open during the Democrat shutdown.
What has he gotten for being a compassionate maverick? What has following his conscience gained for him? Is he beloved by the legacy media as John McCain was when he broke ranks with Republicans?
Hah.
The more Fetterman moderates the nastier the left is to him.
Objectively, this is true. For some reason, the left loathes its political opponents, sometimes to the point of wanting them dead.
Case in point: Jay Jones. The fact that he was elected attorney general despite his heinous history of wishing violence on his opponents tells you all you need to know about Virginia Democrats.
Just last week actress Cheryl Hines, a Democrat actress married to Robert Kennedy, told Bill Maher that Democrats have been brutal to her.
“The Republicans have been very kind to me, from the beginning,” she said. “Even when Bobby was running as a Democrat, they weren't mean and they never have been. And I can’t say that for the Democrats.”
Color me unsurprised.
Earlier this week, when Turning Point USA held a long-scheduled rally on the campus of UC Berkeley - you know, the birthplace of the free speech movement - black-clad rioters showed up and began chanting“ “Fuck your dead homie.”
Sick.
Why not let the Charlie Kirk kids have their rally? Why the need to violate all societal norms to lodge a protest?
These haters can’t help themselves. They want to silence the opposition.
It’s not just happening on college campuses. This visceral hatred invaded American homes after the 2016 election. There were countless stories of families that disinvited Trump voters to Thanksgiving dinner and other traditional holiday gatherings that year.
I know people who were shunned by their families over their votes for Trump.
Did the same thing happen when Biden was elected in 2020? Doubtful.
As someone who spent 17 years as a newspaper columnist, I am well-acquainted with the raw hatred that’s spewed at outspoken conservatives.
Once, when my daughter was in high school, she joked that none of her friends’ mothers ever got death threats, while I seemed to get them regularly.
(Incidentally, they’re still coming. Got the latest threat a couple of weeks ago.)
In Fetterman’s case, Democrats wished him another stroke or death.
In his interview with CNN’s Dana Bash Fetterman seemed genuinely perplexed, wondering “what place that comes from.”
It comes from the left, Senator. Stay away from them.
