He seems like more of a traditional union Democrat.
An actual Blue collar guy that grew up in a rust belt town where all the manufacturing jobs got moved overseas.
I grew up south of Buffalo.
Lackawanna was right next door where Bethlehem Steel at one point in the 70s employed 25K people.
Then ten years later almost all those jobs were gone.
Now, I recognized that the Unions had a big part in killing the golden goose.
Two of my neighbors were making $35/hour at the plant back then. Which was huge money.
Fetterman grew up in a town just like Lackawanna outside of Pittsburgh.
So he witnessed first hand a town where it went from prosperity to a slum.
Couldn’t be more wrong. Fetterman is a trust fund kid who grew up in a wealthy Philadelphia suburb. He went to an Ivy League University (U Penn) and never had a job in his life until he got himself elected mayor of Braddock PA, (population 1600, area 395 acres). It’s a part time job that probably pays less than a $1000 a year. It does border the US Steel Edgar Thompson plant, but I seriously doubt any steel workers still live in Braddock. They can all afford much better housing than Braddock has to offer.