Sen. John Fetterman has urged Democrats to “turn the temperature down” following the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk.
During an interview with CNN host Manu Raju on Sunday, Fetterman was asked about Democrats comparing President Trump to Adolf Hitler and the febrile atmosphere that currently engulfs American politics.
He responded:
I think we can’t just be well, Trump is always wrong or that we’re going to set the country on fire or whatever. That’s just not true either, of course.
But, you know, when I represent a state like Pennsylvania that keeps you honest and you always can’t forget that a lot of Americans happen to disagree with you, that does not mean that they are fascists, or now they want to shred the Constitution.
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If you actually compare him to an actual autocrat, that is not just that. Now, last night, for example, people were complaining, they were protesting about, oh, that’s Hitler.
I think you just don’t ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler and those kinds of extreme things.
Now, look what happened to Charlie Kirk. I mean, the man was shot. Now we have to turn the temperature down.
It’s like we can’t compare people to these kinds of figures in history. And this is not an autocrat. This is a product of a democratic election.
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Fetterman, who is in his first term as a Senator for Pennsylvania, has staked himself a position as perhaps the most moderate Democrat in the entire Congress.
Earlier this week, he warned that people who support socialism in America are “morons” after speaking with people in Croatia who lived through it.
“I literally was in a former communist nation, and I asked that. I said, ‘Some people in my party, some of the lefties are talking about socialism now. What do you think?’”
”And he’s like, ‘That’s the worst thing ever. You would never want to live here, I’ve lived through that kind of a thing.”
“You’re going to need a reality check if you ever adopt any of those things. You know, like, you are morons. It’s like, it was a nightmare for us, and now we are a free market nation.’ It was Croatia.”
