He's the next Joe Manchin. Mainchin wielded outsized influence being at the extreme edge of the party with an electorate willing to keep him there. Wouldn't be surprised if Fetterman finds that appealing.

Connor Lamb, whose base was conservative Democrats, is expected to challenge Fetterman for drifting to the right? The same representative who's also often on lists of Democratic defections? Yeah, that's gonna work.

You ever wonder whether what you’re about to say violates some fundamental tenet you set for yourself? Anyway, he didn’t deserve to survive that stroke.

When he switches sides they'll start gushing about how cool he is in the hoodie.

Because he's a fucking traitor.

We need to be More like HIM!

-The DNC after Cuomo LOST the Primary!

Well yeah.

they sure love a guy with literal brain damage.

We should have known all that smear campaigning on his wealthy upbringing would have bared fruit

Yes, that's because he's literally a republican.

Oh, never mind, the author of the article seems to have been working there for about a month. I'm guessing they just graduated and started reading political news for the first time last month. That's the only explanation for this article, other than the author being a massive liar or reeeeaaally dumb.

Well no shit he had a republistroke

Well that's a fucking shock. /s

Well duh

What, really? Shocked, shocked, I tell you.

https://tyt.com/shows/the-young-turks/2025-05-02/clips/disturbing-details-of-sen-fettermans-health-raises-concern

So he basically hired a very progressive PR team, followed their lead until he got elected, then 180'd on all his views. After that, the progressives he hired started to quit, and he lost the ability to continue to project himself as a progressive.

Here is a pretty good deep dive on the situation.

He was elected while running against Dr. Oz so not like there were good choices.

I've seen this tactic before tho. Like the owner of the 76ers wanted to build a new stadium in Philly, but knew people would protest it because there are already a lot of sports stadiums. So he made a big push to advertise that it would be built like right in the middle of a neighborhood faaaarrrr away from all the other stadiums. Everyone protested THAT and after a few weeks the owner capitulated. He was like "FINE , I'll build my big, expensive, tax break garnering stadium by all the others," which is what he actually wanted from the beginning.

I wouldn't be surprised if Fetterman was supported by Republican interests for a similar purpose.

Gets tragic, permanent brain damage.

Immediate standing ovation from cons.

Well, republiQans do love their mentally impaired strongmen. I wonder why.

If it behaves like a republican it’s a republican. If it says it’s a democrat it’s still a republican, just in marketing mode.

Idiot dem "strategists:" see! We just need to become Republicans and then we can win more voters!

Sinema in an ugly costume.

No shit.

Pretty sure this guy's character arc is a combination of brain damage from the stroke and inability to responsibly handle newly acquired power.