Democratic Senator Johannes Fetterman of Pennsylvania doubled down on comments criticizing his party over 2024 election losses, especially among men, during an appearance on “The View” Thursday.
The View co-hosts pressed Fetterman on his previous comments, in which he bluntly told his fellow Democrats that they lost male voters to newly elected President Donald Trump because they were “condescending” and “offensive.”
“It forces men to make some kind of choice: Can I really remain a Democrat?” he said. “The tone in these types of situations is undeniable. I have witnessed that over the past eight years…and here we are right now be it ‘brittle’ or the ‘manosphere’ and I mean clearly, these are negative terms.”
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“If you talk to them, or you make them part of the problem, or it’s all because of you and your fault, then of course they will find an alternative,” he added. “And that’s what they did.”
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks to a reporter as he leaves the Senate chamber after a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Fetterman said it is “undeniable” that Democrats have lost ground against men.
“I’m not sure we can bring that back without a long-term strategy to re-engage them because it’s undeniable that there is serious erosion,” he said.
Fetterman told the New York Times last month that the party’s condescension toward male voters had alienated a large bloc.
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“In 2016, I was doing an event with the steelworkers, across the street from where I live, and I noticed a different kind of energy with Trump. It was clear then that people were voting for Trump. And the Democrats’ response was, “Aren’t they smart enough to realize they’re voting against their interests?” And that’s insulting, and… that just doesn’t help. It’s condescending. And if anything, that reinforces those kinds of stereotypes,” he told the outlet.
“Telling them that ‘I know better than you’ doesn’t help,” he added.
U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) arrives for the “AI Insight Forum” at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. ((Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images))
He also warned his party that they should stop their pearl-clutching over Trump’s victory, adding that Democrats’ outrage should be “a piece of candy for Trump.”
“We’re not even into Thanksgiving yet, and the Democrats just can’t help but lose our minds every fifteen minutes. We really need to pace ourselves, or, you know, FFS (for God’s sake), just get a grip,” he said.
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