You don’t erase a radical past. You rebrand it. When conservatives crave unity more than truth, deception becomes easy.
by Jett Cross, Cypher-New.com, October 19, 2025
Senator John Fetterman isn’t a Dem with an identity crisis. He’s a psyop. Let’s get into it.
You can see the entire blueprint if you just stop staring at the dirty hoodie long enough. Every piece of his history lines up like a case file: the Clinton-era AmeriCorps progressive grooming ground, the Obama-style activist mayor years, LGBTQ flags flapping off the statehouse, a hard push for pardons and commutations that law enforcement publicly hated, and a Marxist/BLM worldview he quietly scrubbed the second it turned inconvenient. None of that vanished, guys. It just got repackaged.
The story the media, and way too many on the right, are peddling is simple: “Finally! A sane, working-class Democrat who tells it like it is.” Come on, guys. Really? You’re buying this snake oil? This isn’t some political evolution for John Fetterman. It’s backroom engineering by slick consultants who get paid obscene amounts of money to turn activists into presidents. Just ask Barry. Somewhere around 2022, Fetterman’s team flipped the switch from progressive radical to “common-sense” populist. He probably saw The Squad collapsing under its own insanity and decided to switch gears. Smart move, actually. But let’s be real, it’s the same guy, voting the same way, just wrapped in new optics. Fetterman didn’t stumble onto the moderate middle; he discovered a marketing lane.
He’s testing out the next Democratic prototype: a “reasonable” leftist who talks like he hates the radicals but still feeds the same machine. A populist costume for Marxist wiring.
DEBRIEF
Fetterman’s rebrand isn’t random; it’s patterned, calculated, and documented. His history reads like a manual for building the next Democratic psyop: start in the activist trenches, collect the right allies, reframe the optics, and wait for America to forget who you were or think you had some “come to Jesus” awakening.
Before he was Pennsylvania’s “everyman senator,” John Fetterman was the poster child for Clinton-era activism. His political DNA starts with AmeriCorps, the government-funded “service” program built to funnel radical young progressives into government-approved activism. That’s where he learned how to moralize policy and dress ideology up as compassion.
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After AmeriCorps came Braddock, the struggling steel town he used as his own personal political laboratory. Fetterman didn’t just move there; he branded himself as its savior. The media loved the optics: a tattooed, Harvard-educated bald progressive “reviving” a dying Rust Belt town. But behind the photo ops was the same formula AmeriCorps taught him: frame decay as injustice, pitch government as salvation, and call it compassionate service.
Except, oops, it didn’t work.
Braddock didn’t thrive under Fetterman’s leadership. Actually, it flatlined. The population kept shrinking, poverty stayed high, and violent crime actually went up. The “model town” story was a mirage built for campaign ads.
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In his entire tenure as the mayor of Braddock, John Fetterman cast a single vote at a city council meeting and it was a meaningless one. It was a procedural vote for borough president. So, what happened next? This is always our favorite part of the story. What were the results? How did Braddock, Pennsylvania, fare under the leadership of John Fetterman? That’s really the only question that matters and again, we want to be as fair and objective as we can be. So, we’re going to tell you that under his tenure as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, the seas did not rise. That is true. Braddock is still on dry land. Of course, it’s very far from the ocean, but it’s still dry. So, his climate policy worked. He can be proud of that. Unfortunately, everything else fell apart in Braddock.
People kept fleeing. Braddock’s population is currently at its lowest level ever recorded. The median income in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is $14,000 a year. More than a third of households in Braddock live below the poverty line. Braddock, by the way, has one of the highest crime rates in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2018, shortly after Fetterman left office, Braddock’s per capita murder rate was higher than it is in some of the most dangerous countries in the world. Honduras and Belize are safer than Braddock, Pennsylvania. So, that’s a failure and in a functioning system, a record like this would have disqualified John Fetterman from ever running for anything again. He failed demonstrably as a leader. It had a higher murder rate than Honduras and the lowest population ever recorded. Sorry, climate change didn’t improve the town.
THE TRUST FUND MARXIST
And here’s the part the media will never tell you: the “blue-collar everyman” schtick was financed by Daddy’s checkbook.
Fetterman spent most of his adult life twiddling those big thumbs of his in school. First business school, then Harvard, where he collected a shiny but meaningless “Masters of Public Policy.” Not that it cost him anything. Daddy paid for the degrees, the lifestyle, probably copious amounts of pot and Doritos, and everything in between.
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In other words, John wasn’t some lumbering man of the people. He was a bored, privileged kid looking for purpose. Which should ring a bell for most of you, since this is a pattern that defines so many left-wing radicals. Wealthy parents are aimless and desperate to feel important, so they latch onto activism as a personality. And in Braddock, Fetterman finally found his stage.Fetterman had spent his adult life going to school — first to business school, then to Harvard for a so-called Masters of Public Policy, which for the uninitiated, is an utterly meaningless document that you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get in order to tell people that you went to Harvard. But in Fetterman’s case, it wasn’t expensive at all. It was free. His dad paid for it and paid for everything else. As the Philadelphia Inquirer put it, “For a long stretch, lasting well into his 40s, deep into middle-age, Fetterman’s main source of income came from his parents. They gave him and his family $54,000 in 2015 alone.”
In other words, John Fetterman was a classic trustafarian, a flaky, middle-aged man looking for a purpose in life and in Braddock, Pennsylvania, he found one. In 2005, a year after arriving in Braddock, Fetterman announced he was running for mayor and amazingly, boldly, given that he was a professional student living off his rich family, John Fetterman decided to run as a blue-collar populist — but the media asked no questions. They loved it.
In other words, John Fetterman wasn’t the blue-collar savior of Braddock — he was a trust-fund kid cosplaying as one. A middle-aged drifter living off his rich parents, playacting as a man of the people. And the media? They ate it up.
From mayor to lieutenant governor, Fetterman waved every flag that defined the progressive movement. Literally. The LGBTQ flag, the marijuana leaf, and the “defund and forgive” message embedded in his pardons push. Law enforcement hated it, and he didn’t care.
Then there’s the BLM scrub-a-dub-dub. Before his Senate run, he proudly declared his Marxist “Black Lives Matter worldview.” In 2022, that line disappeared from his campaign site. Political evolution? No. Brand management? Yes.
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Senate candidate John Fetterman, D-Pa., has removed mentions of Black Lives Matter from his campaign website in the last month, a review of archived webpages showed.
The “issues” page on Fetterman’s website currently includes sections on inflation ,criminal justice reform, legalizing cannabis, renewable energy, immigration and several other topics, but doesn’t include any section devoted to Black Lives Matter. Archived copies of the page, though, show that as recently as Aug. 22, the same page highlighted Fetterman’s commitment to Black Lives Matter.
When Fetterman says he’s “just a Democrat,” remember, he was Bernie’s guy first and Biden’s loyal foot soldier all along. The Bernie endorsement opened the door to Soros-aligned “justice reform” networks and their DA allies.
And yes, Fetterman’s tight with Soros-backed, soft-on-crime Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner… the guy who’s practically turned leniency into an art form. Krasner is the prototype of the Soros soldier: weaponizing the justice system, protecting criminals, and punishing law and order.
If you really want to understand the Fetterman playbook, look at his wife, Gisele. She’s not a background character. This woman is a full-blown activist with ties to the same progressive networks that shaped John. Pro-illegal immigration rallies, far-left advocacy, the whole package. Gisele isn’t softening his image. She’s reinforcing it.
In fact, the same “Defund the Police” movement that 2022 Fetterman called “always absurd” was the one his wife was proudly linked to.
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Gisele Fetterman, the wife of Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, campaigned over the weekend with several defund the police activists who promoted a bail fund that helped release a man accused of trying to assassinate a Kentucky politician.
Gisele Fetterman on Sunday posted a photo of herself during an American Indian Impact event in Philadelphia, posing alongside “Top Chef” star Padma Lakshmi, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Meena Harris, the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris. A video later tweeted by John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, showed his wife alongside “Scandal” star Kerry Washington urging voters to turn out for the midterm elections on Tuesday.
In 2022, the hoodie-wearing radical shapeshifted into the Democrats’ “reasonable guy.” The BLM references vanished, the flag stunts stopped, and suddenly Fetterman is chatting with right-wingers while scolding left-wing extremists about open borders and antisemitism.
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Sen. @JohnFetterman, D-Pa., tells @ChrisCuomo he would never compare anybody to Hitler, Nazis or fascists for having different views: “If that kind of extreme rhetoric is going to continue, we’re going to be more likely to result in extreme kinds of outcomes and political violence.”
And almost immediately, many conservatives started gobbling it up. Not all conservatives, thank God. This post nailed it. Fetterman isn’t repenting for his past radical sins. He’s repositioning.
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Fetterman is dangerous. Hear me out… This isn’t some “new and improved” Fetterman. He’s a tried-and-true Marxist, always has been, always will be. There’s no miraculous change of heart here, no sudden moral awakening, and he’s definitely not doing us any heartfelt or moral favors with his “common sense” act. What he’s doing is calculated. He’s stepping into a space that’s wide open right now… the role of the so-called “common sense Democrat.” And it’s smart politics, because that image sells, especially now, as the Dem Party slides deeper into extremism. He sounds like an old-school Democrat who voted for Kennedy or cared about working-class families and values. But that’s not who Fetterman is. He’s a Marxist. This is carefully crafted camouflage. Just like Obama, he’s disguising his real politcal self and his motives under a common sense moderate mask. He’s presenting himself as relatable, reasonable, and even patriotic, while quietly clinging to the same Marxist ideology that shaped his politics from day one. And it’s going to work on a lot of people. Good, decent folks on our side who want to believe we can find some middle ground with these ghouls, will end up helping him build his power base and grow. That’s how this game is played. It’s not a transformation, it’s a strategy. And if we don’t recognize it for what it is, he’s going to walk into much bigger political shoes with our help, and make Obama look like a “cake walk.” Trust me…
THE RESULT: HOW THE PSYOP WORKS
Fetterman’s common sense act is bait for very hungry conservatives who just want their country to get back to normal. By echoing MAGA’s frustration with radicalism, Fetterman neutralizes opposition and builds the trust he’ll need later. Conservatives boost his clips, convinced he’s “one of the good ones,” not realizing they’re helping his rise.
Case in point: an X account with nearly 170,000 followers insists it’s “beyond obvious” that Fetterman will go Republican soon. Never mind that he still votes with Democrats 96% of the time.
Fetterman isn’t helping conservatives. He’s playing them. The man votes like a loyal Democrat while posing as Mr. Red Pill for soundbites that get him trending in MAGA circles. He’s not crossing the aisle, guys. He’s crossing wires, and many of you are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.Reality check: Mr. Dirty Hoody is not challenging the Left’s power. He’s expanding it, one conservative retweet at a time. And you have to wonder… are some of these “influencers” getting paid to push the psyop?
Now the media wants you to believe the Democrats are turning on Fetterman. Axios claims Pennsylvania Dems are plotting to take him out in 2028, painting this picture of poor John as the outcast, the man too “normal” for his own party.
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Axios: “Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary contest… even as Democrats turn on him over his softened approach to President Trump.”
Give me a break. This isn’t a mutiny. I called PR and marketing. The Democrats need a reboot. Their brand has rotted from the inside out, and Fetterman is the test subject for the “new normal.” The party of gender lunacy and criminals has to look sane again before 2028, so what do they do? They pick a guy who can take friendly fire from the radicals and pretend it’s proof he’s moderate. Meanwhile, just 11 months ago, he was cozying up to The New York Times, strategizing on how to beat Trump at his own game.
That’s the game. The Left doesn’t eat its own unless it’s theater. Fetterman gets to play the role of the “anti-woke” Democrat while still voting 96% with the machine. It’s camouflage. By the time 2028 rolls around, they’ll have their “common-sense hero” who can charm independents, calm the suburbs, and ingratiate himself just enough with MAGA that the fight won’t be quite as bloodthirsty as in past elections.
