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Progressives Warn That John Fetterman Suffers from Acute Pro-Israel-itis
NRO ^ | 2 May 2025 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 05/02/2025 11:40:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan

New York Magazine’s Ben Terris saved the most important part of his extensive profile of Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman for last: “I didn’t find any indication that the stroke had left him cognitively impaired,” he wrote in its concluding paragraphs.

That is not the impression that a reader would have gathered from the worried former Fetterman staffers, jilted progressive activists, and anecdotes detailing the senator’s declining mental health that preceded this observation.

The piece paints a portrait of a broken man, a shadow of his former self, plagued by depression and demented episodes. None of that was especially apparent to Terris’s sources in the immediate aftermath of Fetterman’s 2022 stroke, a period when only his political opponents acknowledged the extent of the senator’s injuries. Rather, it seems that his impairment only became impossible for the left to ignore after Fetterman made himself into a stalwart Israel supporter.

The piece observes that Fetterman “surprised” and alienated his progressive “base” beginning on October 18, 2023 — eleven days after the worst one-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and nine days prior to the start of major IDF ground operations in Israel — when he rejected the notion that Israel should decline to respond to the October 7 massacre. It describes the “gutting betrayal” his erstwhile staffers felt when Fetterman declined to blame Israel for the slaughter of its own citizens by Hamas terrorists. It reveals the extent of the internal revolt that was kicked off when Fetterman objected to a progressive boycott of Israeli hummus by noting how nonplussed those same activists were to the “rape of Israeli women + girls.” After all, the truth hurts.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: benterris; bloggers; fetterman; hamas; hezbollah; iran; israel; johnfetterman; nationalreview; newyork; newyorkmagazine; noahrothman; nro; oyvey; paping; waronterror; yemen

Still needs to improve his dress.

1 posted on 05/02/2025 11:40:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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2 posted on 05/02/2025 11:41:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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I take it they have a pill for that.


3 posted on 05/02/2025 11:48:26 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

4 posted on 05/02/2025 11:57:03 AM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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as long as the guy doesnt spew hatred


5 posted on 05/02/2025 12:00:27 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodnes.)
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6 posted on 05/02/2025 12:08:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Fetterman is still and always will be a snake, shun him as he will stab anyone in the back to get what he wants when he wants it.


7 posted on 05/02/2025 12:30:44 PM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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He's like that guy who got hit by lightning and — instead of being killed — turned into a talented musician.
8 posted on 05/02/2025 12:32:58 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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just shows how sicko those Democraps are


9 posted on 05/02/2025 1:03:54 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Is Fetterman becoming conservative? Or is he merely a Zionist progressive, which used to be common among Democrats.

How is he on abortion, immigration, BLM, DEI, crime, taxes, tariffs? I haven't followed him so I really don't know.

10 posted on 05/02/2025 1:18:22 PM PDT by Angelino97
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11 posted on 05/02/2025 4:05:04 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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12 posted on 05/02/2025 9:36:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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He is turning into something the DemonRATs hate and haven’t allowed for decades, a statesman.


13 posted on 05/03/2025 5:58:03 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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Actually that was also said about him by RuPaul.


14 posted on 05/03/2025 9:29:08 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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