Fetterman: Election Wasn’t About ‘Fascism,’ Trump a ‘Singular Political Talent’
“Because you put a lot of Democrats, especially in my state, that I know, and I happen to love people that are going to vote for Trump, and they are not fascists.”
How is Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) the sane one in the government? I love his consistency. Interviews seem to have the same questions, and Fetterman gives the same answers.
It happened again on ABC’s This Week when Fetterman sat down with Jon Karl.
Once again, Fetterman pushed back against those who described President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters as fascists.
Fetterman reminded everyone that plenty of Democrats voted for Trump:
KARL: What was the single biggest factor behind Kamala Harris and the Democrats losing in November?
FETTERMAN: You have a singular political talent. It’s un-undeniable.
KARL: Trump.
FETTERMAN: You know, he had the energy and almost a sense of fearlessness to just say all those kinds of things. And people, it’s, it’s undeniable that it has an entertaining aspect for that too, and just if you’re not afraid to say all of those things, or, and after you survived an assassination, you literally were shot in your head and had the presence of mind to respond, you know, “fight, fight, fight.”
I mean, that’s a political talent, it’s undeniable. And also, I never believed that it was about fascism. And for me, that made it difficult —
KARL: Kamala Harris said that he was a fascist.
FETTERMAN: Yeah. Well, it’s like, that’s her prerogative, I mean, but, but it’s not a word that I would use. Because you put a lot of Democrats, especially in my state, that I know, and I happen to love people that are going to vote for Trump, and they are not fascists.
And also fascism, that’s not a word that regular people, you know, use, you know? I think people are going to decide who is the candidate that’s going to protect and project, you know, my version of the American way of life, and that’s what happened.
KARL: I talked to a lot of Democrats before the election who were saying, we’re going to win. Harris is going to win in Pennsylvania.
But you — you saw this coming?
FETTERMAN: If you live in Pennsylvania and you spend time in Red County Pennsylvania, as much as I did, the support is astonishing. I mean, I was driving home from Indiana County at nine o’clock, and there was a Trump superstore on the side of a road, nine o’clock on Friday night, and people are buying swag. And then really, that really crystallized in, at the assassination, and that was in Butler County, Western Pennsylvania, fairly close to where I live.
And the day or two later, you start seeing people wearing shirts with that iconic picture. And, you know, the energy and the anger and, it’s like, wow, I really thought — in fact, I thought that might be ball game. And then the second thing, really, and that’s when Musk and I, we’re in the business, surrogacy is part of it, and sometimes it really has much of an impact. But I knew that was going to be a special one, and —
KARL: “Kamala Harris said that [Trump] was a fascist”
FETTERMAN: “Yeah well, that's her prerogative. It’s not a word that I would use … People are going to decide who is the candidate that's going to protect and project my version of the American way of life, and that's what… pic.twitter.com/URzUVLhLzS
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Fetterman also lashed out against those who want Trump to fail:
FETTERMAN: I don’t know what that really means, because you’ll never, you never know, but, but I am is, I’m just, I’m just a regular Democrat, I’m not leaving my party, but I’m not sure why some of the things that I’ve chosen to do, like meeting with nominees and having views that might be more aligned with some of the Republican side, I think that’s part of politics that’s pretty much consisting with just doing the job and representing the kind of state that we have in Pennsylvania.
KARL: What, looking forward, what do you — what are you most optimistic about with a Trump presidency, and what do you fear?
FETTERMAN: Well, it’s like I’ve been warning people like, you got to chill out, you know, like the constant, you know, freak out. It’s not helpful. So, you know, pack a lunch, pace yourself, because he hasn’t even taken office yet.
KARL: Do you think he has the potential to be successful and a good president?
FETTERMAN: I hope, I hope, because I’m not rooting against him. If you’re rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation. And, and I’m not ever going to be where I want a president to fail.
Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman tells @JonKarl he hopes President-elect Donald Trump is successful in his second term and that he's not "rooting against him."
"If you're rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation." https://t.co/Bk0B9r5VUr pic.twitter.com/qgGYklnOmv
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 22, 2024
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Whenever anybody asks who the Democrats have left to run next cycle, and the talk runs to the Usual Gang of Idiots, don’t rule this guy out.
It was about Fascism, Progressive Fascism. Freedom won and Progressive Fascism lost.
It’s amazing the credit some people get for saying what half the population is already saying.
Yes, but in Fetterman’s case, it’s the OTHER half than the ones who elected him.
Fetterman voted like 100% for democrats BS
He’s playing people
Outside of his support for Israel he’s all left
He was in Rogan and stated the illegal immigration was a good thing for Texas
Hey Fetterman
F/U
I would not vote for Fetterman but he is more like politicians used to be. You can disagree with people without hating them. He may not vote for anything Trump wants but he won’t be out calling Trump a fascist every time he has a camera on him. Kind of like Bill Maher, he does not agree with anything conservative (other than opinions of woke nonsense) but he will still invite them on his show and have a respectful conversation with them.
He wasn’t very respectful of John Lott.
He has a view on a bunch of things I disagree with but he hasn’t turned out to be an AOC type crazy person.
This was a swipe against Rush Limbaugh, who famously said when 0bama was elected that his aim is to ruin America, so I hope he fails. The Dems tried to turn that into some sort of scandal, like, how dare he? Like we’re supposed to hope the president succeeds in ruining America?!
And the fact is that unfortunately 0bama didn’t fail at enough things. He managed to ruin medical insurance, he managed to ruin the Iran situation, he managed to ruin race relations and crime, and he managed to ruin the border situation. If only he’d failed at those things.
I remember that constructed outrage. It was one of the first tastes of the media whipping things into a frenzy over intentionally misunderstood remarks. I listened to Rush every day for 30 years. When he made that remark about Obama all of his listeners knew what he was talking about because he was clear, he wished that Obama failed in implementing his agenda because it was bad for the country. We saw this same type of fake outrage and intentional misinterpreting of remarks hit lightspeed under Trump. Every remark he made which was clear to people listening to him was twisted by the media and Dems into something sinister.
Zero bama?
Yes. I’ve been spelling his name that way since 2008.
I don’t believe this was a swipe at el Rushbo. Fetterman phrased his comment with “rooting against the nation.” Because Rush’s premise was it was Obama’s intent to ruin the nation, then “hoping he fails” is a positive for the nation, not hoping for the nation’s failure.
Your second paragraph is spot-on.
“Rooting against the nation” is exactly how the Dems portrayed Limbaugh’s statement. Their spin was that he wanted 0bama to be a failure, at the nation’s expense, so that he would be defeated the next time.
Although I do not agree with him in most cases, Fetterman is correct here.
Way too often people blab “fascism, Fascism!” etc. Here is a good way to cut off such discussions: ask where in Mussolini’s pamphlet is some specific current event relevant. Since Mussolini invented and defined the word (in the political context), if it is not in his pamphlet, it is not Fascism.
Nobody has any excuse about misunderstanding: the work can be printed on ten sheets of paper and read in one sitting. It is not complex or hard to understand. Whatever the current topic or event, if it is not outlined in the original work, it is not Fascism.
The democrats/communists are just using a pseudo-intellectual way of saying “I don’t like what you are saying.”. But they are appearing stupid because they do not even understand any history, and particularly no pre-WWII Italian history.
Jonathan Karl is a Democrat party stooge.
Well, he’s on ABC, so…
That’s not universally true. It depends on the President. Sometimes, the President, himself, is anti-American, as with Barky and Traitor Joe.
Of course, Trump is one of the most patriotic Presidents we have had in 100 years – which is why the left hates him so much and concentrates their lies on smearing him as being, what they all are, anti-American. But it’s laughable. It’s been laughable from the very beginning, though the left’s control of the levers of power (and their enthusiasm about abusing those powers to wage war on America) which has made even the laughable incredibly dangerous and serious.