The Hypocrisy of Fetterman’s Defenders

Jonathan Chait: “Remember the days after President Joe Biden’s barely-coherent debate performance, when Democratic dead-enders insisted that nothing was the matter? That was embarrassing.”

“But apparently it wasn’t so embarrassing that everybody took away the correct lesson, because something similar is now happening between Senator John Fetterman and a coterie of admirers on the right. Conservatives are now doing the exact same thing that the Biden defenders did: denying the obvious unfitness of a politician because he’s politically useful.”