Democrats’ Newest Political Crush Is ‘Privileged’ Harvard Grad Who Pointed Gun at Unarmed Black Man
. . .Democrats appear to have already settled on a political crush for the 2022 election cycle: John Fetterman, lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. He’s a white man, obviously, and he’s running for Senate in the open election to replace Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.), who is retiring at the end of his term. . .
Fetterman, 51, doesn’t look anything like the other white dudes Democrats have fallen for in the past. He’s 6-foot-8, bald, and covered in tattoos. Despite his “privileged” middle-class upbringing and his master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he looks and dresses like a nightclub bouncer, or the guy a union boss might send around to “solve problems.” That is no doubt part of the appeal.
“Big John Fetterman Can Save the Democratic Party—if the Democrats Let Him,” reads the headline of a Rolling Stone profile published days after the 2020 election. His campaign announcement video was praised for being “packed with Rust Belt grit.” Fetterman is fond of saying he doesn’t “look like a typical politician” or even a “typical person.” . . .
Fetterman’s exalted status among Democrats and journalists, however, could be short-lived. It will certainly be put to the test in light of a problematic New York Times report published Tuesday. The story details a 2013 incident during which then-mayor Fetterman detained an unarmed black man by pointing a shotgun at him:
In 2013, when he was mayor, Mr. Fetterman used his shotgun to stop an unarmed black jogger and detain him, telling the police that he had heard shots fired near his home and spotted the man running, according to the police report. “Fetterman continued to yell and state that he knows this male was shooting,” the police report says.
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