Enabling Trump is a bad look for Fetterman | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Apparently, Fetterman is OK with enabling Trump as long as he gets to hold onto his Senate seat.
59% : He posed for a picture -- holding two thumbs up -- with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), who was nominated as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
47% : Pennsylvania is also a swing state that backed Biden in 2020 but shifted to Trump in 2024.
47% : He supported legalizing marijuana, wealth taxes, a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage, and Medicare for All.
45% : Despite Hegseth lacking any meaningful qualifications to run the sprawling U.S. Department of Defense, Fetterman said he may support him.
43% : Or is Pennsylvania's now-senior senator just trying to stay in power?Either way, Fetterman's pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago this weekend is just the latest attempt to cozy up to Donald Trump.
43% : Fetterman argues that his openness to working across the aisle shows he is a senator for all Pennsylvanians, but his normalization of Trump is the epitome of a sellout.
41% : He, like many corporate leaders and millions of voters, either has a short memory or is delusional." READ MORE: Immigration reform, not crackdowns, would help America thrive | EditorialIt wasn't long ago, when Fetterman was running for the Senate, that Trump called him a "radical" and a "Marxist" and made fun of him for wearing hooded sweatshirts.
38% : Therein lies a likely explanation for Fetterman playing footsie with Trump.
20% : Fetterman's first post on the site was to call for Trump to be pardoned for his criminal conviction in the New York hush-money case.
18% : Sorry, senator, but this is nothing like the Louisiana Purchase, and Trump is nothing like Thomas Jefferson.
16% : After leaving office, Trump was criminally indicted four times, including for stealing classified documents.

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