Speaking back in early September to CNN\u2019s Manu Raju on \u201cInside Politics Sunday\u201d, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman delivered a warning to his party, particularly the leftist members who refuse to back off of contentious culture war topics, noting that they\u2019d lose badly, much as they have already lost the American people, if they continue sticking to such topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Particularly, Sen. Fetterman told Raju that Democrats have forgotten why the American people rejected them at the ballot box on election day in November of 2024, saying, when speaking of many members of his party, \u201cThey have forgotten one of the reasons why we lost in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the same note, Fetterman noted that many in his party bizarrely think that the left needs to double down on the woke progressivism that has made them so toxic, saying, \u201cSome people think now we have to double down on those things or we must become more progressive or more extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rejecting such an idea totally, the senator then said that no progressivism will win the swing states, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s absolutely not true. The seven or eight states that are going to determine who\u2019s going to be our next president, you know, we have to win in those states, and I understand what that takes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding to that same point, Fetterman noted, \u201cClearly, we\u2019ve lost the argument,\u201d referring to the fact that Americans seem to have rejected the Democrats\u2019 progressive talking points, saying, \u201cWe\u2019ve really lost our connection with American voters in ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still not done, he noted that dialing up the culture war fight with more and more woke progressivism has been a disaster for America, particularly in how his party has done things like compare Trump to Hitler, and the American people have rejected it, saying, \u201cWe have to turn the temperature down. It\u2019s like we can\u2019t compare people to these kinds of figures in history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further, the senator argued that Trump is not, as the Democrats have so far insisted, an \u201cautocrat\u201d, but rather the winner of a democratic election in which Schumer\u2019s Democrats were rejected by the American people. He said, \u201cAnd this is not an autocrat. This is a product of a democratic election. It\u2019s like, I participated in that. It was safe and it was secure. We lost, and the American people put us in the minority. That\u2019s democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Doubling down on that support for \u201cdemocracy\u201d as a means of criticizing his party, particularly the leftist progressivism that has taken it over to such a strong degree, saying, \u201cI revere democracy. I may not like the outcome, but I have to respect that.\u201d Further, Fetterman said, \u201cHe\u2019s definitely different, but that\u2019s what America voted for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fetterman also said that he will not be switching parties, as many Republicans want him to, but will rather be sticking around in the Democratic Party. He said, \u201cI\u2019m a Democrat. I just made a significant investment in the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. I\u2019m not changing my party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, he said, he would continue criticizing Democrats in whatever ways he sees fit, saying, \u201cI will disagree with my party at some time. I\u2019m going to have an independent view on what I think was right or wrong.\u201d He added, \u201cWhat\u2019s good for Pennsylvania, I\u2019m going to vote for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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