.@NewtGingrich: “[John] Fetterman took down the American flag in his office in the [Pennsylvania] Capitol to put up the marijuana flag and the Gay Pride flag. […] Tells you about as much about wokeness as you need to know.” pic.twitter.com/tPc9SupMha
— The Hill (@thehill) July 26, 2022
(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) During a speech at the America First Policy Institute’s now-concluded summit Monday, former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich took Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman — the Democrat who is currently running against Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz for Pat Toomey’s Senate seat — to task for ostentatiously flying gay pride and weed flags outside his office in downtown Harrisburg, according to a report from the BizPac Review.
Gingerich described Fetterman as “the perfect caricature of what we’re going to be running against this fall,” referring to the forthcoming 2022 midterms.
“Fetterman took down the American flag in his office in the capitol to put up the marijuana flag and the gay pride flag,” Gingerich told his audience.
According to Gingerich, Fetterman, a giant hoodie-and-shorts-wearing ogre who has made a name for himself as a blue-collar straight-talker, is just as devoted to the boutique issues of the bourgeois Left as AOC or Pete Buttigieg.
Fetterman’s prioritization of gay pride and the legalization of weed — over skyrocketing inflation and the infinite subsidization of Ukraine, for example — “tells you about as much about wokeness as you need to know.”
Not only did Fetterman raise those flags in the first place, but after the state legislature passed a law restricting the display of divisive flags on government property, he made a point to purchase even bigger flags and fly those instead, according to The Hill.
Stunts like Fetterman’s have been criticized by Democrat strategists like Van Jones, who warned that the party was too invested in the interests of the “very well-educated and very well-off.”
“You wind up overpromising . . . to people at the bottom of the economic ladder, talking weird to appeal to people at the top, . . . and the working class walks away from you,” Van Jones told a pair of wincing CNN anchors. “That is the danger we’re facing.”
