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John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop being ‘afraid’ about Trump
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John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop being ‘afraid’ about Trump

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman counseling his friend Democrats about “calm down” Donald Trump.

fetterman pointed out during a NBC News interview on friday Embers “It hasn’t even been opened yet.”

he warned Democrats Trump said they needed to “pace themselves” because it was too early for a second round of his presidency.

“That’s what happens. If you’re already tired, freaking out, and it’s not even Thanksgiving, then you really need to pace yourself. Because it hasn’t even been opened yet,” he said. “So you really need to calm down and be more discerning or discriminating about what will scare you or what will just troll you. Because the problem is not the weather, but the climate of the next four years. “

Some of this week’s “frenzy” has undoubtedly been in response to the question: Trump’s Cabinet picks. The former president has already shot the former Congressman Matt Gaetz attorney general, former Congresswoman and onetime Democrat Tulsi Gabbard will serve as director of national intelligence, and Fox News’ Pete Hegseth will serve as secretary of defense.

During the pre-election rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump said he planned to name Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services and X/Tesla CEO Elon Musk to head the resulting “Department.” Government Efficiency.”

US Senator John Fetterman speaks before Vice President Kamala Harris's speech at Temple University Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 6, 2024 (AFP via Getty Images)US Senator John Fetterman speaks before Vice President Kamala Harris's speech at Temple University Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 6, 2024 (AFP via Getty Images)

US Senator John Fetterman speaks before Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech at Temple University Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 6, 2024 (AFP via Getty Images)

Fetterman said Trump was probably enjoying the collective frenzy and insisted on his decision to name Gaetz: The subject of an ongoing ethics investigation focused on whether he had sex with a minor — his role as America’s top legal advisor was “nothing more than trolling.”

“It must have been a beautiful thing to watch everyone get triggered for this (Trump). I’ve said this before, like clutching those pearls tighter and scolding louder, that’s not going to win,” Fetterman said. “And that’s been proven this cycle.”

Although he viewed Gaetz as a troll choice, Fetterman said he thought Trump’s decision to choose Sen. Marco Rubio as Secretary of State was a “strong choice” and that he “looks forward to voting for his confirmation.”

In addition to Trump’s cabinet picks, Fetterman also discussed Democrats’ election problems, specifically calling them a “challenge”; “siblings.”

“We face a challenge. We have our own ‘childless cat ladies’ situation: ‘Siblings’. People refer to these young men as brothers, and that’s clearly not a positive term,” Fetterman said.

Bernie Sanders had more supporters under 30 than Clinton and Trump combined in 2016 (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)Bernie Sanders had more supporters under 30 than Clinton and Trump combined in 2016 (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders had more supporters under 30 than Clinton and Trump combined in 2016 (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)

Centrist Democrats twice invoked “bro” or similar sentiments as a way to belittle progressive men within the party; Hillary Clinton’s supporters used this phrase “Bernie brother” Suggesting that the angry young men who supported the democratic socialist candidate in 2016 did so out of sexist hatred of Clinton rather than a genuine belief in her ideas.

In 2008, some Clinton supporters leveled similar accusations of sexism at male supporters of then-candidate Barack Obama. “Obama’s children” They were — according to their critics — glassy-eyed idealists who couldn’t get behind Clinton because of her gender.

After 16 years of Democrats wagging their fingers at the energetic “boys” and “bros” under their tent, they now have a problem: The bros aren’t voting for them.

“I think this choice is a serious flexibility for the brothers,” Fetterman said. Policy after the election. He compared Democrats’ use of the term to Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s oblivious and sexist insistence that liberal women are “childless cat women.”

“But it’s the same thing. So is the term ‘brothers’ positive? And the media uses it very freely, in a derogatory way,” he said. “For example, they are uninformed, superficial, or rude. And we reject them.”