Democrats get ready to ditch the progressives – The Times

John Fetterman was always going to be trouble. Hes 6ft 8in, bald and tattooed. As one admiring magazine article put it, like a Hells Angel with a Harvard degree. The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania elected in the mid-terms of 2022 survived a stroke during the campaign and a recent hospitalisation for depression. He speaks his mind, which has led him into a dark and dangerous place: the mental and physical state of the Democratic Party.

The senator, a former supporter of the left-wing presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, used to style himself a Democrat and a progressive but has dropped the progressive label. In a pre-Christmas interview with The New York Times that caused some considerable upset on the left, Fetterman said he

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