There is no in between with this guy. Either there is going to be some scandal where it’s discovered that he has been involved in extorting motorcycle gangs and is the largest dealer of meth and heroin in the Northeast or this guy is going to be very very powerful politically... he is a populist and will be able to attract voters.
I thought it was despicable when Trump did that. But I think the case with Fetterman is different. I would argue that a big part of a politician's job is to communicate. And it just seems that he is not really able to express coherent thought in spoken form at this point. Maybe he should just communicate in written form? If it's a disability, sure, it seems wrong to make fun of it. But doesn't the public have a right to have an elected official who is actually capable of speaking in an understandable way?
How thick is your accent? Does everyone understand you? Have they always? Should politicians speak every language of their constituents? What about dialects? Can you speak Zoomer? What about deaf people? Can you sign? Edit- not a personal attack. I do think that politicians need to be able to communicate succinctly with their constituents by some medium, but they also need to be able to govern properly within the framework set forward by our laws. Western society's value system is broken. It's not the life you live or the examples you set that gets you elected, it's what you say and how you look. The distillation of that is why we have distillations like Trump and other useless politicians trying to make a profit and/or dictate.
Its a pretty weak "whataboutism" when over half of the Democrat senators called on menendez to resign. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...tester-call-menendezs-resignation-2023-09-26/ If anything, it has been republican senators and even trump that have been speaking up for him... https://www.politico.com/live-updat...enendez-senate-gop-resign-new-jersey-00118472 https://newrepublic.com/article/175867/trump-defending-menendez-democratic-corruption
Also weird for GOPers to demand this, given that 50% of the the GOP didn't want to expel Santos without a conviction, and the vast majority of the GOP didn't want to expel him without a completed ethics committee investigation. We don't have either of those for Menendez at this point. That said, I think it would be great if they voted to remove him.
If Fetterman continues to improve his speaking, he would be a slam-dunk 2028 option. The people who complain about something as dumb as the dress code will continue to die off. You don't need to worry about them.
