Fetterman says Democratic Party brand is 'toxic' thanks to constant 'shaming and scolding'

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman agreed that his party’s marque has grown "toxic" aft years of "shaming and scolding" voters and adjacent questioned if they tin crook it around.

While appearing connected the "Somebody’s Gotta Win" podcast connected Thursday, big and writer Tara Palmeri asked Fetterman astir however adjacent insiders wrong the Democratic Party acknowledged the harm their representation has taken since the 2024 election.

Fetterman reiterated his content that the enactment did it to itself by perpetually attacking and demeaning their opponents.

"I deliberation their superior currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to radical and telling them ‘Hey, I cognize amended than you, oregon you’re dopes, oregon you’re a bro, oregon you’re ignorant or, however tin you beryllium this dumb? I can’t ideate it. And then, by the way, they’re fascists. How tin you ballot for that?’" Fetterman said.

 U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks to reporters earlier a Senate luncheon astatine the U.S. Capitol connected December 12, 2023 successful Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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He continued, "And you know, erstwhile you’re successful a authorities similar Pennsylvania, I cognize and I emotion radical that voted for Trump, and they’re not fascist. They don’t enactment insurrection and those things. And if you spell to an extreme, and you go a boutique benignant of proposition, past you’re going to suffer the argument. And we person done that." 

Fetterman described the 2024 predetermination arsenic a "gut-check benignant of vote" wherever Americans largely focused connected who was "going to support oregon task [their] idiosyncratic presumption of the American mode of life," alternatively than immoderate circumstantial policy.

With the caller Democratic National Committee (DNC) election, Fetterman admitted helium was "not sure" if it was adjacent imaginable to triumph backmost those voters, peculiarly among men.

Fetterman expressed concerns astir whether the Democratic Party learned thing from their predetermination losses. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"I deliberation that’s been earnestly eroding for a while. And successful immoderate cases, successful the conversations I’ve had, a batch of people, they don’t adjacent privation to accidental it publicly, but they conscionable consciousness similar the different broadside seems like…the men’s the problem," Fetterman said. "Men are to blame. Or their masculinity is toxic. Or unless you’re capable to conform to our precise strict kinds of explanation of what we deliberation is appropriate, good then, hey, I’m going to find an alternative. And they’ve done that. That’s perfectly true." 

"And erstwhile [they’ve] benignant of turned their backmost connected that demographic, it’s going to beryllium hard to rebuild and regenerate that with those voters, due to the fact that I deliberation that migration has been an ongoing improvement for respective years and that has been successful beforehand and halfway successful portion of the predetermination successful ’24," helium concluded.

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Since the election, Fetterman has been precise captious of his enactment for ignoring oregon dismissing cardinal issues similar appealing to men oregon stopping the borderline crisis.

Fetterman has antecedently criticized his enactment connected however they approached cardinal issues. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Well, 1 country wherever we benignant of mislaid ourselves was the border," Fetterman said connected "Fox News Sunday" successful November. "And I've been connected this network, you know, months, months agone saying, 'Hey, you know, it can't beryllium arguable for our enactment to person pro-immigration, but we request a unafraid border.' And erstwhile we inquire oregon request radical to not judge what they see, and spot those kinds of numbers, that that's not a problem. It's like, well, past you suffer astir that 100%." 

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