John Fetterman should run for president in 2028 to save Democrats

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is the most abnormal politician in America today. Often ready to oppose his fellow Democrats, he appears unique on Capitol Hill, even though his ideas are shared by the majority of Americans, including many Democrats.

It’s unclear how Fetterman went from being a progressive, failed Senate candidate in 2016 to winning in 2022 and becoming the moderate thorn in the side of still-left Democrats. Some think his medical issues changed him, but the answer might be much simpler.

In fact, it may not be so much that Fetterman has distanced himself from his party, but rather that his party has distanced itself from Fetterman.

A glaring example is that of Israel. Until five years ago, support for the Jewish state was as widespread among elected Democrats as the EZ Pass is on American highways. But today the absurd, fabulist consensus within the party is that Israel has committed genocide.

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Fetterman, along with a few others like Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., have resisted these anti-Israel narratives hard, even as nominally pro-Israel voices like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have shamefully kept their heads down on the issue.

Most recently, regarding the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Fetterman once again stands by his own party’s leadership in insisting that the agency should be fully funded, with no strings attached.

He is the only Democrat in the Upper House to take this sensible position.

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Fetterman is also just about the only Democrat willing to rejoice in the death of the Iranian regime’s brutal leaders while the rest of his party virtually undermines the war effort with absurd attacks on Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Meanwhile, regarding New York City’s communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, one of the most popular figures in Democratic polls, Fetterman said of him last year: “Everything I’ve read about him, I don’t really agree with almost anything, politically. That’s exactly where I’m at as a Democrat. He’s not even a Democrat, honestly.”

But here, Fetterman seems to be wrong. In fact, Democrats have lined up to support and endorse Madman Mamdani and his merry band of capitalism-hating DSA darlings, and it’s Fetterman who is losing the support of the party’s voters.

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But he does not lose the support of all voters.

According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, 72 percent of Republican voters in the Keystone State approve of Fetterman, compared to just 22 percent of Democrats, with independents split about 50-50.

This is the strange situation we find ourselves in: more Republican voters in Pennsylvania approve of Democratic Senator Fetterman than Republican voters in Texas approve of Republican Senator John Cornyn.

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All of this has led to speculation that the hoodie-wearing maverick might switch parties and run for his seat as a Republican in 2028. But that’s not the feeling Fetterman’s words and actions give me.

Zohran Mamdani and Chuck Schumer (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Fetterman wants to save the Democratic Party, not abandon it.

The best way for Fetterman to achieve this goal is not to defend his Senate seat in two years, but to run for president.

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Recently, I polled a few insiders I know from both sides of the aisle, asking if Fetterman really had a chance of winning the presidency in 2028. The most common answer was “yes,” with a handful of “absolutes.”

The logic here is that every other potential Democrat who could participate in a presidential primary debate is in favor of the crazy left-wing ideas that Fetterman opposes.

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Especially now that sports media celebrity Stephen A. Smith has announced he will not run, due to the financial hit he would take, Fetterman would be the only Democrat in the field proposing a return to centrist politics.

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The odds are firmly stacked against Fetterman in his quixotic mission to restore sanity to America’s oldest political party, but then again, what were the odds that this guy would ever be a senator in the first place?

All Americans should be happy to have this unique senator who speaks with common sense, regardless of party arguments, marching orders, or the wavering winds of public opinion. It may be naive to believe that these qualities still matter to voters, but if they do, call me naive.

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