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Adam Gabbatt

Fetterman flight: from Sanders-style progressive to Trump-adjacent senator

a man in a hoodie looks ahead
John Fetterman, a one-time progressive firebrand, has proved unusually willing to work with Donald Trump. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA-Efe

“You can’t ‘work’ with crazy,” John Fetterman wrote. “You must call it what it is. Anything less is spineless appeasement.”

It was mid-2016, and Fetterman, then running in the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat in Pennsylvania, was responding to a Politico article about how Democrats may work with Donald Trump.

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