General Discussion

I imagine that Trump's win in PA and Senator Casey's loss may have seemed like a wakeup call for him. Could it be he sees his constituents wanting him to give Trump a chance. I'llI hope what Fetterman MEANT was that he hoped the US would be successful during the Trump presidency. Even Mitch McConnell suggested that Republican Senate institutionalist might temper some of the Trump goals.

Fetterman could have hoped that Trump would fail to get the vast majority of his extreme agenda through the Congress. This failure would be good for the country because the huge tax cuts, cuts to programs, tariffs, attacks on long term allies, and support for authoritarian governments are bad for the United States.

I imagine his hope is to position himself as someone they can negotiate with, not someone who will knee jerk accept positions he always disagreed with.

Fetterman was a hero here because of not being a regular politician, like Conor Lamb. He was called a populist, which he is. That does not make him a liberal, a Democratic socialist. He is absolutely not like Bernie Sanders, whose votes or positions have never surprised me. Vermont's local cable station has tapes of him speaking in the 1980s as mayor of Burlington. His basic values and goals never changed. Are there people from PA who have followed Fetterman who can say the same of him? Did he change from 2022 or did we at DU see what we wanted to see?