Scott Wiener has an unusual distinction in American politics: He upsets almost everybody. In the months before I met the California state senator-who is now running for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat-he had been harangued at one public meeting after another. In October, pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted his campaign's pumpkin-carving event to shout: "Wiener, Wiener, you can't hide; we charge you with genocide." (This was not an isolated incident.) His usual response in these situations is to wait calmly and then carry on as normal.
Why are you a Democrat though? I don't say that to be a wise guy, he insisted. You support Israel and the progressives don't, generally speaking. You are for a very rigorous defense against Putin in Ukraine, correct? You want to stop them, right? Yeah, of course, replied Fetterman. I just on social media encouraged President Trump to provide Tomahawks to the Ukrainians. I mean, it's like, he is probably the only person in the world that could end this terrible war.