Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has emerged as a staunch supporter of Israel.
But, his staff is not entirely on board with his views.
Speaking to Peter Savodnik of The Free Press, Fetterman’s communications director, Carrie Adams, openly expressed her disagreement with the views of her boss.
“I don’t agree with him,” Adams said during a phone call with Savodnik.
She added, “I have a sense that his international views are a lot less nuanced than my generation, because when he was growing up, it was might makes right, and for my generation and younger who, of course, are the ones protesting this, they have a much more nuanced view of the region.”
Savodnik noted, “I’ve been a reporter since the summer of 1998, when I covered Bill Clinton’s trip to Martha’s Vineyard for the Vineyard Gazette. This was the first time I’d ever encountered anyone—on Capitol Hill or anywhere else, on the record, off the record, on background, whatever—criticizing ‘the principal.’”
“It’s true that young people especially disagree with Fetterman. Sixty-five percent of today’s college students have a favorable opinion of the pro-Hamas encampments that took over so many university campuses last spring and are now threatening to explode back to life—on campus and at the convention, where as many as 100,000 protesters are expected,” he continued. “But still. If sporting a keffiyeh and retweeting whatever the Gaza Ministry of Health just said is how young progressives signal to each other that they’re in the in-group, that they’ve gone full radical chic, then Fetterman is whatever the opposite of that is.”
Several criticized Adams for breaking with Fetterman as his communications director:
Fetterman told the Savodnik, “I’ve been frustrated by some of my members and how they’ve chosen to handle that situation.”
“I don’t agree with a lot of their views, but whatever kinds of political choices or any kind of political costs that I’ve incurred throughout all that, I don’t care,” he added.
