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The Hoodie Was the Costume
John Fetterman ran as the anti-politician: the hoodie, the tattoos, the union-town posture, the big-guy-from-Braddock promise that he was not like the consultants and climbers who usually ask working people for votes and forget them after election night. Then Washington happened.
This Burn the Playbook episode follows the receipt trail from the campaign promise to the post-election pivot: Israel, the progressive label, the Laken Riley Act, the Mar-a-Lago meeting, the Pam Bondi vote, and the widening fracture with Democrats.
The question is not just whether Fetterman ever switches parties. The…
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