The Town John Fetterman Ran Is in Ruins
21st October 2022
The Democratic platforms on policies that affect people personally — crime and public safetyare other major concerns — are not winning. And there’s no one worse at delivering, and delivering on, the left’s failing messaging than John Fetterman, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s US Senate seat.
I’m a Pennsylvanian and have never understood Fetterman’s appeal. At all. Every time I’ve heard him speak or seen him posing in photos with his phony tough-guy act, I’m astounded that he was ever chosen for anything more than an extra on Pawn Stars. So I decided to visit Braddock, Pennsylvania, the town of 1,800 people where Fetterman was first elected to political office (he was Braddock’s mayor for 13 years). I wanted to see if there was something about the guy I was missing. What I learned was that when it comes to matters of economics and public safety, Fetterman is even more incompetent than I thought.
I knew I’d arrived in the small Pittsburgh suburb when I saw a billboard on Braddock Avenue with Fetterman’s face on it, labeling him as “soft on crime.” Not the Dr. Oz campaign’s most clever work, but accurate, considering Braddock’s higher-than-average violent crime rateduring Fetterman’s mayoral tenure.