Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) used a Fox News interview about President Joe Biden to call out a right-wing plan called Project 2025 that would reshape the government if Donald Trump wins reelection.During an appearance Monday on Fox News, host Dana Perino noted that former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) had sugg...
This is a ridiculous viewpoint, the Democrats are a center right party. Here in Canada they would be considered conservative.
He supports healthcare and workers’ rights, he’s a Democrat.
Or at this point the Republicans are so cracked that straight up “if he doesn’t support Project 2025, he’s a Democrat”
He’s referring to:
Notably:
He basically broadly cast Palestinians as "because Hamas is among them, they earned their situation.
So nominally Democrat, but he’s been called “Republican’s favorite Democrat” and has been espousing some more right wing sentiment this year particularly.
Brain damage from a stroke is well known to possibly cause major shifts in personality and beliefs too
Dude went from calling himself a progressive at every opportunity pre-stroke, to going on a rant about why he has no idea why anyone would think he was a progressive and how angry it makes him
Being confused about things and responding with belligerence is also normal following things like strokes or the normal effects of aging.
All this shit is logical, except where we pretend they’re normal and the same as elected.
No he literally had a stroke, had brain damage, and stopped being a progressive. I’m not talking figuratively here or being like “hurr durr non-progressives are brain damaged”, the stroke figuratively turned him into a different person, he became significantly more conservative.
Which really is a shitty situation all around, it’s really unfortunate.
I don’t pay attention to american individual politicians as much but maybe he’d be a red Tory? Morneau was a grit cabinet minister and he’s solidly centre right, LPC tends to be neolib