The Democratic Party is collapsing under the weight of its own far-left radicals.
There’s barely a “moderate” left in the entire caucus. When you have this many Democrats unable — or unwilling — to condemn the horrors of socialism, and more than a few openly embracing it, you’re no longer dealing with a center-left party. You’re dealing with an ideological movement.
Just look at this week’s House vote: 98 members voted against condemning socialism. Meanwhile, only 86 Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the resolution. In other words, more Democrats opposed condemning socialism than supported it.
That tells you everything you need to know about where their party is headed — and who’s running it now. Sure, a few party leaders — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — voted to condemn socialism. But let’s be honest: Jeffries is doing that while staring down a left-wing primary challenger in his own district. He’s trying to straddle both worlds, and it shows.
If Jeffries genuinely stood up to the far-left faction consuming his party from the inside, he might actually help steer Democrats back toward sanity. But other than mastering the dramatic arm-waving meant to evoke Barack Obama, he hasn’t shown much ability to lead his caucus anywhere — let alone in a constructive direction.
The only Democrat showing even a flicker of common sense lately has been Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). From day one, he refused to go along with the party’s shutdown stunt — a strategy pushed by people like Hakeem Jeffries — and called it out for the political nonsense it was.
And now the far-left is coming for him. The Pennsylvania Working Families Party has already announced they plan to primary him. But when Fetterman was asked about that on Fox News, he didn’t flinch. He laughed — literally laughed — and taunted them on air:
?NEW: John Fetterman *TAUNTS* left-wing party over primary threat?
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— Jason Cohen ?? (@JasonJournoDC) November 21, 2025
“Ooh, ooh, oh, I hope, promise. I hope so,” Fetterman laughed.
“Because I guarantee whoever they put up, they’re going to make me look, you know, the reasonable guy that’s going to work with both sides together and find a way for Pennsylvania.” He said that he was on the side of “common sense” and that most people realized shutting down the government was wrong.
It’s a great line, and the far-left absolutely won’t appreciate being waved off like that.
Fetterman also pushed back on the Working Families Party’s claims about his shutdown vote, saying their narrative was false. He argued that his vote wasn’t some ideological betrayal — it was about making sure SNAP stayed funded, that the military got paid, and that federal workers weren’t left hanging.
It’s pretty clear Fetterman isn’t losing sleep over their threats. And why would he? Pennsylvania isn’t exactly clamoring to elevate a Working Families Party candidate to the U.S. Senate, no matter how loudly the activist left insists otherwise. If they want to pour time and resources into a symbolic crusade, that’s their choice — and it only drains energy from the rest of the Democratic field.
Either way, the far-left is stuck with Fetterman for quite a while. His term doesn’t end until 2028, meaning they’ll be grinding their teeth for years as he keeps refusing to play along with their purity tests.
