2028

“Why is the Democratic party viewed as toxic by so many? Even people inside the party acknowledge that,” journalist Tara Palmeri recently asked the Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania on her ominously titled Somebody’s Gotta Win podcast. John Fetterman’s answer was blunt: “I think their primary currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to people and telling them, ‘Hey, I know better than you’ or ‘You’re dopes’ or ‘You are a bro’ or ‘You’re ignorant or you know it, don’t you’? You know, ‘How can you be this dumb?’ I can’t imagine it. And then, by the way, ‘They’re fascists, how can you vote for that?’ When you’re in a state like Pennsylvania, I know and I love people that voted for Trump and they’re not fascist.