What's your assessment of Sen. John Fetterman?

[Sympthsical]

35. I think he knows his audience extremely well

And that people who are all out of sorts over him haven't yet caught that they are not his audience.

That isn't to say I agree with everything the man says or does (nor am I interested in visiting that list).

But the rather dramatic reaction to him recently plays into his intent very well, I think. His whole thing is to appeal to working class blue collar types - valuable in Pennsylvania, and a constituency the national party is having a lot of trouble with these days.

Online melting down over him isn't a detriment to his purposes. I'd say it's rather calculated to appeal. He intentionally poked exactly the bear he wanted to, and the bear has reacted in exactly the way anticipated.

How will it go down in real life? Who knows. Only he and the voters of Pennsylvania will determine that.

But generally I dig him, because he's at least trying to make inroads with a constituency that our side has somehow decided it doesn't need to stoop to - which has been a resounding success for everyone involved, clearly.

It's always strange to me that people who fancy themselves in the vanguard of protecting rights decided somewhere along the line that they shouldn't have to condescend to the act of actually persuading voters. And it is going exactly as one would expect. The net result? Loss of rights. If you can't win, it doesn't matter how right you are.