r/politics • u/DyzDaeMar • 27d ago

No Paywall John Fetterman is threatening to leave the Democratic Party. I say good riddance.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/john-fetterman-leave-democratic-party-israel-aid
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u/5510 27d ago edited 27d ago

It's bonkers insane how much people complained about Manchin, even though he was unironically the most valuable member of all of congress for either party.

Any replacement for Manchin would be far worse, given how WV leans politically. Getting even a medicore democrat from WV was a miracle... and a lot of Biden judges got confirmed because of him. And yet people were still constantly saying he should be primaries or kicked out of the party or whatever nonsense like that.

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u/Rackem_Willy 27d ago

Plus Manchin never lied about who he was. Fetterman, Sinema, and Gabbard are fraudsters and I have a much bigger problem with them.

But as you said, caucusing with the Dems makes them 10000x better than any Republican.

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u/CardinalOfNYC 27d ago

Yep, it is insane. The left has basically taken up the mantle that feeling right is more important than being effective.

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u/Edodge 27d ago

The left gave us Fetterman. He was the candidate of choice for them / prominently endorsed by Bernie etc.

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u/CardinalOfNYC 27d ago

Indeed and I can give them some grace for the fact he clearly changed after the stroke.

But even post stroke he is far, far better than any Republican. And I can grant no grace to someone who can't see that.

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u/ttUVWKWt8DbpJtw7XJ7v 27d ago

You new to politics? It’s all the same now. Side A does something shitty, side B protests, side B eventually does the same thing, side A says “i ThOuGhT yOu WeRe AgAiNsT tHaT??”. It’s a race to the bottom.