The Reputations Ruined by the Pennsylvania Senate Debate

On Tuesday night, Pennsylvanians were treated to a grotesque, voyeuristic spectacle they should not have had to witness. John Fetterman has not been allowed the care and space he needs to recover fully from the stroke he suffered in May. That much is clear. To the people around him, Fetterman is less a human being in visible distress than an instrument of political utility. It was a shameful and depressing display.

If there was any value in the debate, it was in the degree to which it exposed the duplicity of Fetterman’s boosters. They think so little of you, and so highly of themselves, that they believed they could shape your perceptions of reality. At the very least, they could blackmail you into keeping your dissent to yourself. So many mortgaged their credibility in the pursuit of that crude objective. But last night, the bill came due.

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