John Fetterman Says Other Democrats Won’t Call Out DSA Radicals Because ‘They’re Afraid of Them’

[rangerrebew]

John Fetterman Says Other Democrats Won’t Call Out DSA Radicals Because ‘They’re Afraid of Them’ (VIDEO)
by Mike LaChance Aug. 5, 2026 10:20 pm

Fetterman appeared on the Sean Hannity show on Wednesday night and was asked why so many Democrats are silent in the face of the radical DSA types taking over their party.

According to Fetterman, it’s because they are afraid to speak out. This tracks.

This is why when people like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and other top Democrats are asked about what is happening to their party, they dodge and deflect.

Transcript via Overton News:

Senator John Fetterman says the reason he’s the ONLY Democrat willing to speak out against the socialist takeover of his party because the rest are cowards:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/john-fetterman-says-other-democrats-wont-call-dsa/

[rangerrebew]

Isn't that pretty much how democrats have always operated, by intimidation?

[Timber Rattler]

You know,  I don't like how Fetterman votes but I've come to respect the heck out of him for his courage in standing up to the Islamists, antisemites, and Commies who have taken over what's left of the Democrat Party.

That stroke he had seemed to fix him.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, if you think they might be scary now, just think how they'd be if they were in control.
Democrats, stop being simpering wimps.
Now is the time to fight them, with words and ballots.
They won't treat you any better than those who fight them, just because you were a lukewarm communist and not a true believer. You'll go to the Gulag with the rest of us.
Stand on your hind legs and object.
Don't wait until you need blades and bullets.

[massadvj]

Well, if you think they might be scary now, just think how they'd be if they were in control.

The absolute worst people you want in power are those who hunger the most for it. With any kind of victory, the sanctimonious know-it-alls on the far left will turn into Bolsheviks in order to force their agenda. Fetterman will be kicked aside like Emma Goldman after the Russian revolution.

[mountaineer]

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@feelsdesperate

It may be a little harder to see but a big reason why Dems are being cannibalized by the DSA is the sclerosis and specific sort of corruption that gerontocracy entails.

No organic generational successor has developed within the Dem establishment to take over from the increasingly insentient clique of 80-year-olds who now run the Democratic Party.  So, the 40-year-old versions that are being chosen by the establishment to succeed the 80-year-olds are inadequate and completely uninspiring - there's been no update.

If senior Dems had stepped back and started making way 10-15 years ago (no later than after Bernie's 2016 run) to allow incremental change and leadership succession maybe they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But the problem for them now is that the DSA apparatus is reliably producing more compelling and engaging political candidates even if they happen to be ideologically deranged freaks who have no place governing.
10:08 AM · Aug 6, 2026

[DefiantMassRINO]

Establishment Republicans are scared of MAGA, so they capitulate and gripe anonymously behind closed doors.

The same will happen to the Dems.

MAGA has carried the GOP momentum since 2016.

DSA has is asserting the Dem mommentum in 2026.

This is why America can't have nice things anymore.

[Cyber Liberty]

Establishment Republicans are scared of MAGA, so they capitulate and gripe anonymously behind closed doors.

The same will happen to the Dems.

MAGA has carried the GOP momentum since 2016.

DSA has is asserting the Dem mommentum in 2026.

This is why America can't have nice things anymore.

The difference being, the GOP gripes about Trump and block his initiatives and appointees, while the Democrats gripe about the DSA, then support them.