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Fetterman is a unique case. There are peole close to him who say he changed after his stroke. Let's not put the Fetterman comparison on every Progressive who comes forward sounding like working class.

And let's not put this on Bernie. He encourages a lot of people to run, he has brought a lot of talent into the party, including AOC. They do not as a rule change ideologies midstream or turn out to be scandal-ridden. He is not in the end the one responsible for vetting candidates, there are professionals who are supposed to do that. Bernie does enough. You may or may not like it that Bernie is committed to bringing Progressives into the party, but that is a separate issue from the problems that Fetterman and Platner pose.

Yes, they need to be vetted them and that will be very hard in the time available. I hope the people with the power and responsibility to decide will listen to what Mainers were telling us they wanted instead of just picking the status quo that hasn't prevailed for 30 years.