There is one thing that unites the right and the left: Senator John Fetterman’s death wish.
That’s according to the man, who told the New York Times in an article published Thursday that “I’ve discovered in the last two years… that the right, and now the left, expect me to die.
“There are those looking for another blood clot,” the Pennsylvania Democrat added, referencing his near-fatal stroke last year. “They’ve both been wishing for me to die.”
Fetterman, 54, once beloved of the far left, has irritated many activists with his staunch support for Israel following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, and now insists he is “not a progressive.”
John Fetterman survived death earlier after a stroke. fake images
In response, disgruntled leftists have referred to him with the hashtag X “#GenocideJohn” and some have even rebuked him in person.
The portly Pennsylvanian, famous for strutting around the Senate in shorts and oversized hoodies, lamented what he described as “purity tests” imposed by his former traveling companions.
“It’s just a place where I’m not,” he told the Times. “I don’t feel like I’ve left the [progressive] label; “It’s more what he left me.”
The Pennsylvania Democrat was once seen as a progressive broadly aligned with Bernie Sanders. fake images
“I’m not critical if someone is progressive… I just believe in different things.”
In 2016, Fetterman endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president and billed himself as “a Democrat and a progressive.”
He later endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after Sanders dropped out of the race.
“This weird purity thing, where people were offended because I was hugging Secretary Clinton when we had Trump on the other side?” Fetterman reflected. “How did that work out for you?”
As mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and then lieutenant governor of the Keystone State, the Democrat earned a reputation for endorsing many far-left wish list items.
Fetterman insists he still wants federal legalization of marijuana, a $15 national minimum wage and universal health care.
Democrats have found themselves deeply divided over the response to the conflict in Israel. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
But his support for Israel and his recent admission that he does not believe it is “unreasonable to have a secure border” have upset some on his side of the aisle.
“Whenever I find myself in a situation where I am called upon to take up the cause of strengthening and improving Israel’s security or deepening our US-Israel relationship, I will bow,” Fetterman told Jewish Insider in April of last year.
“I would also respectfully say that I’m not really a progressive in that sense.”
On Thursday, he expressed his bewilderment to the Times that “far-left progressives in the United States don’t seem to want to really support the only progressive nation in the world.” [Middle East] “that really encompasses the same kind of values that you would hope we would want as a society.”
“I’m not really sure,” he added, “how much of this would be a surprise if anyone had been paying attention.”
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