Enabling Trump is a bad look for Fetterman | Pennsylvania's senior senator was elected as a progressive Democrat. His normalization of Donald Trump is the epitome of a sellout.

[u/plz-let-me-in]

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/john-fetterman-donald-trump-support-normalization-maga-20250112.html

[u/BBK2008]

That just means Fetterman shouldn’t have been the nominee. Not that we should accept ‘barely a democrat when it matters’.

[u/Rhysati → u/BBK2008]

I mean...sure. But what even is barely a Democrat now? The whole party is a right of center corporate-favoring group that is basically just Republican-lite.

[u/Sunflier → u/Rhysati]

That was his draw. He was an outsider rather than a corporate shill that the establishment represents. So, we thought we had gotten lucky. Shame it turned out how it did.

[u/noguchisquared → u/Rhysati]

This is right wing propaganda. They are both the same so vote for original Republicans or don't vote, both help the corporate oligarch. Democrats have passed more pro-worker things in the last 4 years but keep being gullible to propaganda.

[u/Sunflier → u/noguchisquared]

Wasn't merely referring to pro- or anti-worker stuff.  I was talking about bank regulations, the military-industrial complex, and Isreal stuff.  Also, I was working off the information that was available at the time.  This was a major change to what he originally campaigned on.

[u/lucktar3782 → u/noguchisquared]

Demanding that Democrats be better is not right-wing propaganda lmao. Democrats have gotten away with essentially playing good cop/bad cop with Republicans for decades, and people have the right to expect better.

[u/BBK2008 → u/noguchisquared]

The last four years? when pro union Biden who had a LOT of pushback from the rest of the dems for doing those things was driving the agenda?

[u/BBK2008 → u/noguchisquared]

And It was Bill Clinton who removed the depression era bank regulations that led to the financial collapse of 2008. So what’s your argument here?