Washington Examiner Managing Editor Chris Irvine suggested that the Democratic Party “listen more” to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) as he commits to bipartisanship under President-elect Donald Trump.
While the Democratic Party remains in a tailspin since its loss in November’s election, which saw its rival Republican Party take the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, Fetterman is committed to working with the new president-elect. The senator told This Week, “If you’re rooting against the president, you’re rooting against the nation.”
“I think the Democrats are still a bit listless post-election. The refreshing thing about John Fetterman is that he’s really kind of a different voice within that party right now. He’s coming across as the voice of reason,” Irvine said on Morning In America. “And he is saying there’s a messaging problem in the Democratic Party. We’ve heard for years that ‘Trump is Hitler’ and ‘Trump is a fascist.’ All of a sudden, he wins, and then he’s got a fireside chat with Biden in the White House.”
“It’s showing that the messaging that they had isn’t landing, and people aren’t listening anymore. And I think they need to listen more to people like John Fetterman who have a more all-round world view of how things are right now in this country,” Irvine said.
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Vice President Kamala Harris referred to Trump as the late Adolf Hitler in her brief campaign against him. President Joe Biden referred to Trump as a “threat to democracy” and at one point suggested that Trump be “locked up politically.” Even campaign surrogates adopted the strategy, including actor Robert De Niro, implying that a second Trump term could be similar to Germany’s situation under Adolf Hitler.
However, the fearmongering did not help the Democrats’ cause, as Trump won 312 electoral votes and the popular vote. Since 2001, the Democratic Party has only lost the popular vote twice: once this most recent cycle in 2024 and again in 2004. Meanwhile, Harris outperformed Biden in only 58 counties and lost every swing state.