John Fetterman: 'I'm a Very Pro-Capitalist Democrat'

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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4.7 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Sen. John Fetterman discusses the state of the Democratic Party, immigration, foreign policy, and the dangers of political extremism.

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0:00.0	This is the recent interview with Nicholasby, and my guest today is John Federman, the outspoken Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania.
0:10.5	Senator, good to talk with you.
0:13.1	Yeah, well, thank you for the invitation to have a conversation.
0:16.5	Yeah, absolutely.
0:18.5	I love to have conversations with people all across the whole thing. And so, yeah,
0:24.4	it's a real pleasure. Well, we met 15 years ago on the set of Bill Maher's real time.
0:29.9	When you were merely the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, let me play a quick clip from that episode.
0:37.2	Our purchasing power is very good.
0:39.8	I'm the mayor of the poorest town in Pennsylvania.
0:42.4	Well, you must be very proud.
0:43.9	No, again, you know.
0:47.0	No, I'm going to take it outside.
0:48.5	Geez.
0:49.3	Oh, right.
0:51.4	Well, we continue to be style icons in our respective worlds.
0:58.0	Beyond that, let's talk a little bit about what has changed in your politics.
1:04.7	You recently wrote in the Washington Post that you're not going to be changing parties.
1:09.1	People have said, you know, is he going to become a Republican or an independent?
1:13.0	But in the Washington Post piece, you did have critical words for your own party.
1:17.7	You recently told Fox News, of all places, that the Democrats are an orgy of socialism.
1:24.1	In your own piece, you wrote that the Democrats seem to be catering to the fringe and agitated
1:29.6	parts of our base.
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