HuffPost: “His attacks against members of his own party and public breaks with the White House are drawing comparisons to Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the two signature Democratic party apostates of the moment, putting on display some of the very tendencies Fetterman said he opposed — even if earlier stages of his career hinted at his current behavior.”
“This version of the gruff, hoodie-wearing, 6-foot-8 Pennsylvania senator has grated on progressives who supported him during his 2022 run for Senate and even some fellow Keystone Democrats who watched his rise to national prominence…”
“Fetterman’s sophomore year in Congress has been quite different from when he first began stomping around the Senate in a pair of shorts and Hoka shoes, scaring the living daylights out of the chamber’s stodgy traditionalists. For one, he’s much more eager to engage with reporters in the hallways of the Capitol despite still exhibiting symptoms of an auditory processing disorder resulting from a stroke.”
