The GOP’s once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a “coup” that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator. Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the chamber. Initially styling himself as a working-class progressive champion, he has since made a major shift away from his own party, voicing support for various initiatives and nominees from President Donald Trump and breaking the Democratic minority on several key votes.
You’re right, and I am aware of that. I was just using the opportunity to express disdain for Fetterman. The cynical part of me doesn’t mind the omission because regardless of whoever is the leader the Republicans always seem to manage to get what they want these days. Although that’s probably just a bias based on my frustrations and fixation on the bad they’ve managed to do, in no small part because of Perle like Fetterman.
That is more complex to express than fuck Shitterman though, so I went the lazy route.