Democrats have knives out for John Fetterman but risk stabbing themselves

“I’d love to see him as a Republican,” President Donald Trump told reporters Saturday.He was speaking, of course, of Sen.John Fetterman, the maverick Pennsylvania Democrat who’s been increasingly willing to break with his party in recent months.Trump’s comment revved up a rumor mill that Fetterman himself recently sought to tamp down.“I don’t have a reason” to jump ship to the Republicans, he assured CBS’ Major Garret two weeks ago. Then he dropped a quiet bombshell. “If I’m 51” — that is, the Senate’s 51st Democrat and the deciding vote for the body’s control — “then I don’t know.”  He continued the tease: “Let’s revisit after the midterms.”  Fetterman has every reason to be coy — it makes him Washington’s most powerful kingmaker.If he does switch parties, or becomes an independent caucusing with the GOP, the Democrats’ Election Day hill gets very steep: It means they’ll need a net pick-up of five seats to take the Senate — improbable given socialist-adjacent candidates in places like Maine, Texas, Michigan and elsewhere.But more importantly, a Fetterman exit would be an ominous signal of coming attractions for his party. In 2024, the Democratic Party politburo lied about President Joe Biden’s fitness for a second term, then about Kamala Harris’ readiness for prime time. These Big Lies cost them the election, as I predicted then on these pages.  In 2026, the Democrats’ Big Lie is about the Big Tent. That’s because the party’s tent is “big” only for the extremist left. If you want to “seize the means of production,” eliminate the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court, open the borders, defund the police, abolish prisons and deprive Israel of its right to self-defense, then top Democrats will lay down prostrate: You get a red-carpet welcome.  But if you question the trans-right agenda, you risk excommunication by the party’s activist class and mutiny by your own staff, as ...