Fetterman called the 2024 election a “gut-check-and-vote” election…
While appearing on the Somebody’s Gotta Win podcast on Thursday, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman blasted his own party for “shaming and scolding” people and driving them away.
Host and journalist Tara Palmeri asked Fetterman about how insiders in the Democratic Party acknowledged the damage their image has taken since the 2024 election.
“I think their primary currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to people and telling them, ‘Hey, I know better than you,’ or ‘You’re dopes,’ or ‘You’re a bro,’ or ‘You’re ignorant,’ or ‘How can you be this dumb?’ I can’t imagine it. And then, by the way, they’re fascists. How can you vote for that?’” Fetterman said.
Fetterman continued: “And you know, when you’re in a state like Pennsylvania, I know and I love people that voted for Trump, and they’re not fascist. They don’t support insurrection and those things. And if you go to an extreme, and you become a boutique kind of proposition, then you’re going to lose the argument. And we have done that.”
Fetterman says Americans were largely focused on who was “going to protect or project [their] personal view of the American way of life” rather than any specific policy when they voted in 2024.
Fetterman admits it may not be possible to win back one key voter demographic: men.
“I think that’s been seriously eroding for a while. And in some cases, in the conversations I’ve had, a lot of people, they don’t even want to say it publicly, but they just feel like the other side seems like … the men’s the problem,” Fetterman said. “Men are to blame. Or their masculinity is toxic. Or unless you’re able to conform to our very strict kinds of definition of what we think is appropriate, well then, hey, I’m going to find an alternative. And they’ve done that. That’s absolutely true.”
“And once [they’ve] kind of turned their back on that demographic, it’s going to be difficult to rebuild and replace that with those voters, because I think that migration has been an ongoing phenomenon for several years and that has been in front and center in part of the election in ’24,” he concluded.
Watch the clip below:
John Fetterman explains why Democrat party brand is toxic, and is not sure the Democrats can 'win white men back':
Tara Palmeri: "Why is the Democratic Party viewed as toxic by so many? Even people inside the party acknowledge that."
John Fetterman: "I think their primary… pic.twitter.com/q5BZXDdrbI— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) February 6, 2025