Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) shocked supporters on the left with a pronouncement made in an interview with NBC Information revealed Friday that “I’m not a progressive.”
Since being handled (apparently efficiently) for medical melancholy earlier this yr following final yr’s debilitating stroke, Fetterman has emerged as an articulate, average Democrat on points like securing the border, supporting Israel in its conflict with Hamas and calling on corrupt Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (NJ) to resign.
“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman advised NBC Information. “I simply assume I’m a Democrat that may be very dedicated to selection and different issues. However with Israel, I’m going to be on the precise facet of that. And immigration is one thing close to and pricey to me, and I believe we do must successfully handle it as nicely.”
Fetterman insisted he may be pro-immigration whereas additionally favoring insurance policies to limit the movement of migration to manageable ranges, disagreeing with progressives who oppose new limits on asylum and bash among the concepts within the negotiations as merciless.
“It’s an affordable dialog — till any individual can say there’s a proof on what we will do when 270,000 individuals are being encountered on the border, not together with those, in fact, that we don’t find out about,” he stated. “To place that in reference, that’s basically the dimensions of Pittsburgh, the second-largest metropolis in Pennsylvania.”
The senator added that whereas it’s “not perfect to have this dialog” about asylum and parole coverage in reference to an assist bundle for Israel and Ukraine, “it’s nonetheless one which we must always have,” provided that Republicans have made it a necessary situation to advance the supplemental invoice.
“Progressives higher do this as a result of we will’t go away Israel — we will’t promote them out, and we will’t promote Ukraine out, and we have now to ship on this,” Fetterman stated. “I simply would very very like to get a deal to ship this important assist.”
Response was not sort on the left:
Humorous, he was a progressive when he was asking me for my fucking cash https://t.co/wyNY6xmWH8 pic.twitter.com/3i6ASqOplO
— isi baehr-breen (isibb.bsky.social) (@isaiah_bb) December 15, 2023
Senator Fetterman throws his spouse underneath the bus (2023) https://t.co/8lLBOGOWuA pic.twitter.com/UNAHN1Dbgx
— loopy ass moments in american politics (@ampol_moment) December 15, 2023
story as outdated as time. This really is how Fetterman’s story ends https://t.co/rPfC4Jost8 pic.twitter.com/Q4pI7zeQA4
— Erik Strobl 🦝 (@erikstrobl) December 15, 2023
With Senator Manchin gone, Senator Fetterman is vying for the rotating villain spot.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) December 15, 2023
Fetterman shedding all his supporters bc he can’t preserve his mouth shut pic.twitter.com/ZrOyFzISAt
— Skilled Zoomer 🌹 (@Zoomer_Doomer_) December 15, 2023
Response by some on the precise has been one among nice shock.
Within the final month or so John Fetterman has been:
Proper on Israel.
Proper on not promoting farmland to CCP.
Proper on expelling Menendez.
Proper on the border.And I’m simply amazed. pic.twitter.com/gQOdiafsxv
— GAgirl1967❤️🖤 is prepared for Christmas 🎄! (@Tamzilla_52) December 9, 2023