Pennsylvania Deserves Better -- And It's Not Too Late to Demand It

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Kristoffer Ealy

I’ll be honest — I didn’t know a whole lot about John Fetterman before he started running for Senate in Pennsylvania. I’d see him pop up on MSNBC now and then, this towering guy in a hoodie talking about working-class grit and sticking it to corporate elites. He looked like a political anomaly: blunt, scruffy, authentic in a world of prepackaged talking points. For a minute, I thought maybe we were seeing a new kind of Democrat — someone who’d actually fight for the people who fix things instead of the people who fund things.

When the Senate briefly relaxed its dress code for him in 2023, I didn’t think much of it. The man wanted to wear shorts — fine. Washington could use less starch and more self-awareness. But looking back, that moment might have been an early warning sign. The issue was never the hoodie. It was the attitude under it. Because what first looked like authenticity now reads like apathy — and the man who couldn’t be bothered to put on a tie has since shown he can’t be bothered to show up for half his job.

Who could forget his race against Dr. Oz — good Lord, that was something to behold. Listening to Mehmet Oz try to explain policy felt like being trapped in a late-night infomercial for democracy’s decline. It was bad enough watching him on TV hawking raspberry ketones and miracle detox teas like a sentient shopping channel, but hearing him talk about governance was next-level absurdity. The highlight — or lowlight — came when he tried to prove he was just a regular guy buying a veggie tray, only to call it “crudité.” Watching that clip was like watching a Wall Street banker pretend to be a Wawa cashier.

So, yes, I donated to Fetterman. Because compared to Dr. Crudité, almost anyone would’ve looked like the people’s champion. But let’s be real — voting for Fetterman over Oz wasn’t exactly a high bar to clear. If you lived in Pennsylvania in 2022, that was the easiest moral decision of your year.

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1. I live in a reliably red precinct in PA

I remember that night he beat Oz. I was a poll observer and stayed to watch the final tally. The R poll worker said he was surprised that Fetterman got as many votes as he did in our little red area, although he obviously had less than Oz here.
I thought “well won’t you be shocked as hell when he wins!”
It was a good feeling and I’m not sorry to have voted for Fetterman over Oz. Still a disappointment though.