> Fetterman is now a populist. <
I was struggling to find a word to describe Fetterman as he is today. I think “populist” might be it. And his stances are evidently genuine. Here he is at a pro-Israel rally, draped in an Israeli flag. Folks who are just playing games wouldn’t do that.
However, Fetterman probably still has all his socialist ideals. Time will tell if he moves more to the left or more to the right. Given how “different” Fetterman is, I wouldn’t bet much either way.
Fetterman is exactly what you’d expect from a semi-retarded statewide politician in Pennsylvania. For all his flaws, he can count votes in his state and he knows there isn’t much of an appetite to have a Japanese company buy out one of the oldest heavy industrial players in PA.
U.S. Steel is a mere shadow of its former self, but it is still one of about two dozen Fortune 500 companies with its corporate headquarters in Pennsylvania.