John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop 'freaking out' over everything Trump does

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 22:32:59 | Updated at 2024-11-23 11:53:00 1 week ago

John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop 'freaking out' over everything Trump does
NBC News ^ | 11/15/2025 | Allan Smith

Posted on 11/15/2024 2:25:48 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

The Pennsylvania senator spoke to NBC News about what went wrong for his party in 2024 and how it should approach the future Trump administration.

In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Sen. John Fetterman did something different than other Democrats.

He went on Joe Rogan’s podcast, a show Democrats had been urging Vice President Kamala Harris to do — and the kind of appearance Democrats feel their candidates need to get more comfortable making in the current media environment.

But Fetterman, who built a blunt, says-what-he-means brand, said Democratic setbacks in 2024 had more to do with unpopular positions progressives promoted than any lack of communication from the party’s center-left establishment.

“It’s not even what you might say as a candidate,” Fetterman said in an interview, adding “all of the very hard-left, kind of ‘woke’ things” Republicans used in advertising this year “are unloaded on the backs of all of us in purple states, and we’re paying for all of the things that our colleagues might say in these hard blue kinds of districts.”

That’s part of Fetterman’s broader post-election message for his party. Moving forward, he says, Democrats can’t get wrapped up in “freaking out” over every controversial move Trump makes, adding that has proven to be a losing formula for the party and its brand. He was speaking after Trump selected former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general and just before he tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

“I’ve said this before, it’s like, clutch those pearls harder and scold louder — that’s not going to win,” Fetterman, D-Pa., said. “And that’s been demonstrated in this cycle.”

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Just one more life threatening serious stroke...

And Fetterman just may turn 100% MAGA.

To: Responsibility2nd

His parents are lifetime Republicans. John is learning why. I do believe he will switch parties.

2 posted on 11/15/2024 2:28:20 PM PST by Sacajaweau

To: Responsibility2nd

They’re spoiled children and that’s what they do ,LOL

3 posted on 11/15/2024 2:28:39 PM PST by butlerweave

To: Responsibility2nd

Hahaha. The total clarity from this guy is amusing contrasted with confused delusions from the rest of his party.

4 posted on 11/15/2024 2:28:55 PM PST by nwrep

To: Responsibility2nd

Can you imagine? I may move to PA just to get a Pennsylvania absentee if he keeps this up.

5 posted on 11/15/2024 2:29:13 PM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)

To: Sacajaweau

Whatever happened to his leftist wife?
I don’t see her mentioned anymore.

6 posted on 11/15/2024 2:29:19 PM PST by Reily ( )

To: Responsibility2nd

Too bad for Fetterman-style Democrats that they unleashed the woke left and that genie can’t be put back in the bottle. All I’m seeing from the true believers is that they are doubling down on stupid.

To: Reily

Well....Maybe he doesn't mind sleeping on the couch.

I suppose she will leave him...and take as much money with her as she can.

8 posted on 11/15/2024 2:31:29 PM PST by Sacajaweau

To: Responsibility2nd

I know Fetterman's a Democrat and, for that reason, I don't trust him. But I like him.

I am sorry for all the things I said about him a during his campaign (likening him to Uncle Fester and Frankenstein). I was wrong to do that.

But, in my defense, "Politics ain't beanbag."

9 posted on 11/15/2024 2:31:44 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson paraphrased, "If you strike at the king, don't fail." They failed. )

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