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Fetterman is simply a straight shooter with moral clarity and a backbone. These characteristics are rarified in politics and desperately craved today.

Trump knew the value of holding these attributes and managed to construct a hall of mirrors that created an illusion of authenticity. His canny enough representation of these characteristics convinced some appreciable fraction of the populous sufficient to tip the scales in his favor in 2016.

But it was always an enigmatic alchemic recipe that many politicians have tried but only Trump could make work well enough.

Fetterman insofar as I can tell, is the real deal. I and I think many others would happily concede various policy positions for a candidate of character, moral clarity, and forthrightness. Biden has these in greater measure than Trump however we still see lapses in all three. And despite the paucity of these characteristics in Trump, on some important matters he somehow lands on the more moral side, seemingly by accident.

Alas we are left with these ultimately abjectly deficient candidates while the country needs and mostly wants a leader like Fetterman.

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