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Fetterman laments that leftists now wish him dead over Israel support

December 22, 2023 | | Print Article

It’s been a tumultuous year for Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) who was hospitalized for depression soon after he arrived in the Senate and would later see his own party’s once-adoring base turn on him like rabid dogs over his support for Israel.

While leftists fiercely defended the mentally misfiring galoot for his choosing to show up to work looking like a vagrant in his grungy hoodies and shorts, they changed their tune over his outspoken defense of the Jewish democracy and his criticism of the Hamas terrorists as well as progressive antisemites.

The Pennsylvania Democrat lamented his fall from grace with his base, telling The New York Times he believes that now some leftists who have tabbed him #GenocideJohn would be happy to see him dead.

“What I have found out over the last couple years is that the right, and now the left, are hoping that I die,” said Fetterman who had a major stroke before his state’s Democrat primary last year but didn’t withdraw. “There are ones that are rooting for another blood clot. They have both now been wishing that I die.”

Fetterman, who was supported by crypto communist and twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), has infuriated left-wingers with not only his pro-Israel stance but also remarks suggesting that some border control measures are “reasonable” and most recently, blaming Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok for the “warped” perspective of young Democrats who have taken the side of Hamas.

He also struck a nerve with progs with recent comments denying that he was one of them.

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“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman recently told NBC News. “I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that.”

“It’s just a place where I’m not,” he told The New York Times. “I don’t feel like I’ve left the label; it’s just more that it’s left me.

“I’m not critical if someone is a progressive,” Fetterman added. “I believe different things.”

Perhaps his previous supporters should have taken the time to analyze the former Braddock, Pa. mayor’s actual view on important issues before they became mindless cheerleaders of the man whom the entire media pushed across the finish line to ensure that the Democrats would retain their razor-thin Senate majority because he was never shy about his backing of the Jewish democracy.

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“Whenever I’m in a situation to be called on to take up the cause of strengthening and enhancing the security of Israel or deepening our relationship between the United States and Israel, I’m going to lean in,” Fetterman told Jewish Insider in April 2022, only weeks before his debilitating stroke.

“The relationship is a special one that needs to be safeguarded, protected, supported and nurtured through legislation and all available diplomatic efforts in the region,” he added.

“I do find it confusing where the very left progressives in America don’t seem to want to support really the only progressive nation in the region that really embraces the same kind of values I would expect we would want as a society,” Fetterman told the New York Times, referring to the pro-Hamas protesters who have become increasingly aggressive in their demands for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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