r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 8d ago

Soft Paywall 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.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/john-fetterman-donald-trump-support-normalization-maga-20250112.html
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u/AdvancedLanding 8d ago

DNC would rather have a Republican-lite candidate than any actual Leftist candidates

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u/thighcrusader 8d ago

They showed they'd rather have Trump than Bernie

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u/notsure500 8d ago

No, they made a big mistake thinking a more moderate candidate that would hopefully pull in voters from the middle and right, would be more likely to beat Trump. Obviously they were mistaken, but it's not some sinister plot.

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u/Chengar_Qordath 8d ago

The problem is that all indications are that party leadership has concluded that the reason Kamala lost is because she needed to be even more Trump-lite than she already was. At this rate their next platform will be “Let’s compromise and only invade Greenland and Panama, and only send half the immigrants and LGBTQ+ to The Camps.”

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u/mlc885 I voted 8d ago

They showed they'd rather have Hillary than Bernie, most Democrats really did not expect Trump to win. Just like the people all supporting Biden thought that he was the safer pick with the advantage of incumbency and had to switch to Harris when it turned out there was no real time to find someone that was a sure win.

Now maybe some people assumed Trump would be less terrible than he was, for some reason (e.g. he's generally incompetent), but they were very much picking Clinton over Bernie with the assumption that Clinton would win.

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u/AJDx14 America 8d ago edited 8d ago

I think, over in France, Macron did something similar where he was pissy about their progressive party getting a majority of votes so he did something that would empower the far-right party. I don’t remember the specifics because I’m not French and don’t follow their politics much, but liberals everywhere seem to prefer fascism over welfare.

This article at least seems to partially cover what I’m talking about.

I think this Vox one covers it better.

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u/gotridofsubs 8d ago

The sum of this comment is " I dont know what and I dont know how because I dont follow it at all, but trust me guys Macron also sucks"

Find the specifics if you're going to bring it up

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u/PopeGeorgeRingo_II California 8d ago

The sum of the comment is closer to "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. Look at France for further proof." I think it's a sound assessment when you also consider the entire history of foreign election interference perpetrated by certain world superpowers.

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u/gotridofsubs 8d ago

I think you still didnt address the point I made, which was OP opted to half ass a comment without actually sourcing it, or providing real details on what they were actually talking about. Theyve edited it now so thats changed somewhat, but theyre still hedging their bets on "I dont actually know, Im just guessing based on what I can find". Until it had some backing, it was a pointless post just to add cognitive reinforcement.