Senator John Fetterman’s recent interview with CNN’s Dana Bash pulled back the curtain on a truth too many in the establishment want to ignore: the far left, not conservatives, has become viciously cruel to anyone who dares disagree. Fetterman told Bash that his own digital team identified Bluesky as the epicenter of the nastiest, most personal attacks, and the clip left even a seasoned CNN host visibly stunned.
Fetterman described messages from the left that go beyond name-calling — people literally cheering for his death and for his next stroke, and even sharing grotesque gifs to mock his health struggles. Those aren’t just rhetorical flourishes; they’re targeted, dehumanizing attacks aimed at silencing a Democrat who defied the party line on major issues.
Anyone who still believes the media’s tired narrative — that only conservatives traffic in nastiness — should watch this exchange and feel the sting of the double standard. The right might lob rough insults, but what Fetterman described is a left-wing mob that traffics in wishes of bodily harm, an ugliness that mainstream outlets suddenly pretend to find shocking when one of their own finally speaks up.
Conservative commentators and honest journalists have been hammering this point for years: the left’s purity politics and cancel culture produce an internal cruelty that eats its own and punishes dissent. That reality isn’t theoretical — Fetterman’s story is a firsthand account from a sitting U.S. senator, and it deserves more than the media’s reflexive calls for unity while they ignore the mobs they enable.
We also have to call out the platforms that let these mobs organize and amplify this hatred. Whether it’s Bluesky or any other site that brands itself as a leftist sanctuary, tech companies have a responsibility to stop being safe harbors for people who cheer for elected officials to suffer or die — and conservatives have every right to point out the hypocrisy when Big Tech selectively censors.
Patriots who love this country should be outraged that this level of cruelty is being normalized inside one of our two major parties. Speak up for decency, demand accountability from platforms and pundits who excuse this behavior, and refuse to allow American politics to be defined by a faction that celebrates suffering instead of advancing ideas.
