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DAVID MARCUS: Can John Fetterman save the Democratic Party from itself?
Fox News ^ | March 15, 2026 | David Marcus

Posted on 03/15/2026 5:54:56 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is the most anomalous politician in America today. Often willing to buck his fellow Democrats, he appears to be a one of a kind on Capitol Hill, even though his ideas are shared by the majority of Americans, including a lot of Democrats.

It is not entirely clear how Fetterman went from being a progressive, and failed, candidate for Senate in 2016 to winning in 2022 and becoming the moderate thorn in the side of the ever-left lurching Democrats. Some believe his medical issues changed him, but the answer might be far more simple.

In fact, it may not be so much that Fetterman moved away from his party, but that his party moved away from Fetterman.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: absolutelynot; answerisnohecant; bolsheviks; davidmarcus; demagogicparty; democrats; domesticenemies; fetterman; johnfetterman; pennsylvania; whybother; whywouldhewantto

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I know that he isn't a conservative, but he is an interesting part of the political landscape.

Popcorn. Need more popcorn.

1 posted on 03/15/2026 5:54:56 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Um, no?


2 posted on 03/15/2026 5:55:49 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Can John Fetterman save the Democratic Party from itself?

Not a snowball’s chance in hell.


3 posted on 03/15/2026 6:07:19 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

That would be..... no.


4 posted on 03/15/2026 6:08:37 PM PDT by big truck ("This space intentionally left blank.")
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

“Can John Fetterman save the democratic party from itself?”
Absolutely not. They will off him before that ever happens.


5 posted on 03/15/2026 6:12:42 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: DarrellZero

Why bother?


6 posted on 03/15/2026 6:16:27 PM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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"Can John Fetterman save the Democratic Party from itself?"

No more than what Joe Manchin or Joe Lieberman could.

7 posted on 03/15/2026 6:17:03 PM PDT by buckalfa (More chaos and disruption please)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Why would I want him to save them?
I want to purge all Democrat party members
from America!


8 posted on 03/15/2026 6:17:32 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

No. And why would he want to?


9 posted on 03/15/2026 6:43:17 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Fetterman has not cast a single vote against the radical Dems when it made a difference and he never will. Last week he defended the fraudulent mail voting. When it matters he is just another rat.


10 posted on 03/15/2026 6:51:35 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Can John Fetterman save himself from the Democratic Party? Same answer.

11 posted on 03/15/2026 6:57:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

No.

Too white.

Too alpha male, I think.


12 posted on 03/15/2026 7:03:32 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

No, it’s lost to the squad.


13 posted on 03/15/2026 7:28:51 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
Fetterman is 100% hot air.

I keep asking what consequential GOP legislation has Fetterman voted for?

Still waiting...

I think Fetterman plans to run for President in 2028.

Or - he is nervous about being reelected to the Senate in 2028.

14 posted on 03/15/2026 7:47:59 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Precisely what a lot of former Democrats have said: “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me.”


15 posted on 03/15/2026 8:35:45 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: buckalfa

I remember the days of Sam Nunn, Scoop Jackson and others of like in the democrat party. They were absolute patriots and slightly to the left of the Republicans on social issues of which the were right and wrong. They were patriots. Oddly even George McGovern a WWII B24 pilot of great skill. His record in the air is great, actually very great! In politics he was very left. He was also a 100% patriot.

The common connection of patriotism and left verses right no longer exists.


16 posted on 03/15/2026 8:46:24 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

To the Democrats, Mr. John embodied the old Beatle song, “Fool on the Hill”.

In that, I suggest that he saw that himself, and has been using that to establish that though he is a Democrat,vhe is not one of the herd.


17 posted on 03/15/2026 9:08:07 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Why is the onus on Fetterman to save the un-American disreputable demoncRAT party? There are more demoncRATS, although I wish there weren’t, in Congress than is required.


18 posted on 03/15/2026 9:22:07 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

The Democrat party needs to die not be saved.


19 posted on 03/15/2026 9:25:12 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Idk. It is kind of like a registery of subversives. If it goes away, they all scatter and we have to start over with identifying them. If only there were a way to keep them from obtaining power. Like showing up to outvote them or something.


20 posted on 03/15/2026 9:36:29 PM PDT by Kudsman (Volunteer white preservationist )
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