Summary
In a guest editorial published by PennLive, Cumberland County Democratic Party chair Matt Roan called for Senator John Fetterman’s resignation.
He accused Fetterman of abandoning Democratic values and aligning with Republicans and Trump.
Roan criticized Fetterman’s votes to confirm Trump ally Pam Bondi as attorney general and support a GOP-backed funding bill, as well as his pro-Israel stance and backing of immigration restrictions.
Speculation about Fetterman switching parties intensified after his meeting with Trump, but he denied plans to become a Republican, insisting he remains committed to Democratic priorities.
I’m not too familiar with his record before running for the Senate, I’m afraid, but, presuming it was sufficiently different that people had wanted to vote for him and no one had been sounding the alarm, part of me wonders if something had happenned when he had his stroke.
It’s, obviously, not a given but brain damage can cause personality changes. I have very little evidence beyond speculation but I do wonder, from time to time.
Brain damage leads to conservative values. That should be pretty obvious by now. That’s why conservative leaders are against environmental and consumer regulations. More lead, more PFAS, more conservatives.
There was a guy I knew in high school, he was never the brightest bulb, but he had the rare gift that he realized that he was kind of an idiot and would listen to and try to learn from people that knew more about something than he did. Overall a pretty nice guy, I don’t think anyone really had anything bad to say about him, he leaned a little conservative but if you took the time to explain something from a liberal point of view you could definitely get him to change his mind sometimes.
I mostly lost track of him after I graduated, I heard somewhere through the grapevine that he had died, turns out those rumors were somewhat exaggerated, but he did get a pretty significant brain injury, spent a brief time in a coma, had some surgeries, nice scar on his head.
Next time I ran into him a few years later, he had taken a pretty weird turn into some paranoid bullshit, talking about some apocalypse or civil war that he seemed sure was coming and how he was learning to make his own arrows so he could keep hunting when ammo ran out.
This was a few years before Trump’s first term, I can only imagine he’s spiraled further into crazytown since then.
TBH, he might turn out to be right and we’ll be begging him to teach us his ways.
Studies have proven that true.
He tricked us when he was mayor of Braddock Pa and when he was lieutenant governor. I hope people aren’t stupid enough to vote for him again, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he switched parties and won as a repug.