Fetterman Offers Own Party Advice, Echoes Trump's 'Common Sense'
Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., appeared on CNN with host Manu Raju to offer advice to his own party at a time when Democrats seem rudderless and self-admittedly, without a message that says something other than “Trump is bad.”
“Clearly, we’ve lost the argument and I think it’s entirely appropriate to really be honest and figure out why, exactly, have we effectively lost two of the last three cycles and a lot of the things we’ve really kind of lost our connection with American voters,” Fetterman told Raju on the Sunday episode of Inside Politics.
Fetterman spoke of his party’s tendency to make everything about President Donald Trump and called attention to the hyperbole used to describe Trump and warned, “We can’t just be, well, ‘Trump is always wrong or that we’re going to set the country on fire.’ That’s not true either of course.”
Fetterman: “Don’t ever compare people to Hitler.”
Fetterman told Raju when asked about Democrats who refer to Trump as an autocrat, he countered, “That’s the thing if you actually compare him to an actual autocrat […] Last night, for example, people were protesting ‘That’s Hitler, Hitler!’ You just don’t ever compare anyone to Hitler in those kinds of extreme things.”