Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) wants people in the country to stop with dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric. During an interview with Kayleigh McEnany on her show Saturday in America on Fox News, the senator said he refuses to call people “these kinds of extreme things.”
Fetterman made the comments after McEnany read a passage from Fetterman’s book, Unfettered, in which she hypothesized that it was a motivating factor as to why the senator “refuses to hate.”
“I just can’t call people these kinds of extreme things,” Fetterman told McEnany. “And I refuse to do that. I mean, right now, especially after what happened with the president last year or what happened with Charlie Kirk, or all these things. We really have to turn the temperature down.”
Fetterman was then critical of those who engaged in such rhetoric and urged people not to compare anyone to Adolf Hitler, or call people Nazis or fascists, a common insult issued by left-wing politicians and political supporters in recent years, especially during the terms and political campaigns of President Donald Trump.
“For me, I just refuse to be a part of that fake outrage or to call those kinds of names. Otherwise, we continue to cheapen our language and use those kinds of terms,” Fetterman said. “Don’t ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler. Or don’t ever, ever use those kinds of terms to compare a political opponent as a Nazi or a fascist, because that is just absolutely not the case.
McEnany went on to praise Fetterman for his comments and said that her father was appreciative and supportive of Fetterman’s commitment not to describe Republicans as Nazis or fascists. She added that her father would have liked to have dinner with the senator.
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“My dad said last night at our dinner we had after the Christmas tree lighting,” McEnany said, “John Fetterman, he’s someone who I wish was at this dinner table. I like that guy.”
Fetterman has developed a reputation as a somewhat maverick figure in the Democratic Party. In recent months, he has scolded his colleagues for their rhetoric, their lack of support for Israel, and, during the government shutdown, for which, at the time, Fetterman said Democrats “really need to own the shutdown.”
