Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was once the toast of the Democrat Party but now it appears his slowly drift away from radical leftist policies, especially when it comes to the war between Israel and Hamas. 

According to an interview with the New York Times, Fetterman acknowledged that he's gotten on the bad side of his leftist colleagues in a big way. His stance on Israel has been uncompromising, but he admits openly that he's no "progressive" when it comes to Israel. 

The backlash against Fetterman only caused him to embrace his position more. Accusations have been thrown at him, such as the hashtag "#GenocideJohn" circling around on X. As a result of his position, Fetterman believes he's earned so much disfavor by both sides for various reasons that everyone wants him dead: 

Once a darling of progressives who positioned himself as a champion of the underdog and highlighted his association with Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist from Vermont, Mr. Fetterman now has a less rosy view of the left and says the label of “progressive” does not fit him anymore.

“What I have found out over the last couple years is that the right, and now the left, are hoping that I die,” Mr. Fetterman, who suffered a near-fatal stroke during his campaign, said in an interview on Wednesday. “There are ones that are rooting for another blood clot. They have both now been wishing that I die.”

Fetterman says he's still a "progressive" on many subjects including rising the minimum wage to $15 as well as Universal Health Care, but while he says he leans left on those, the title of "progressive" just isn't for him  according to the NYT: 

“It’s just a place where I’m not,” he said. “I don’t feel like I’ve left the label; it’s just more that it’s left me.

“I’m not critical if someone is a progressive,” he added. “I believe different things.”

Believing "different things" is usually a one-way ticket to the radical left's bad side and that seems to be the point that Fetterman is making when he says the label left him, not the other way around. 

Contrary to his belief, I don't know many people on the right who truly wish Fetterman would die. In fact, as Fetterman has drifted more toward the center on certain topics, conservatives have become far softer about him as a politician. Not necessarily approving, but softer nonetheless. 

In fact, as Fetterman's mental capacity improves from the stroke he suffered in 2022, it seems Fetterman is drifting more and more away from the left. Interestingly, the less brain-damaged Fetterman becomes, the less he seems to believe in hard-left causes.

Still, as conservatives begin to grow less wary of Fetterman, leftists have reacted as leftists do, with fury and attempts at intimidation according to the NYT: 

Still, the backlash has been blistering. Demonstrators have shuttered streets in front of his district offices demanding his support for a cease-fire. A group of former campaign staff members wrote an anonymous letter calling his support for Israel a “gutting betrayal” of what they had believed to be his values. And progressives have expressed frustration that Mr. Fetterman, of all people, has rallied to support Israel rather than the Palestinians whose plight they have made their cause.

Outside of his support for Israel causing the left to despise him, Fetterman has also pushed for fellow Democrat Senator Menendez to be investigated further for his abuse of underage girls, even going so far as to have expelled Republican George Santos to send him a video telling Menendez to not let the haters get him down. 

(Incredible: John Fetterman Pays George Santos to Troll Bob Menendez Because Everything Is Insane)

If this continues, Fetterman may shake his shackles entirely and do what other Democrats have done when they felt the party drifted too far to the left; become an Independent.