Democratic Party Cookie-cutter Democrats By Varad Mehta August 25, 2022 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Democratic Party Cookie-cutter Democrats By Varad Mehta August 25, 2022 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print John Fetterman, you may have heard, is not your father’s Democrat. But forget about that. He’s not even your Democrat from 10 years ago. With his 6-foot-8 frame, shaved head, multiple tattoos, goatee, and penchant for wearing shorts and hoodies no matter the occasion or weather, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor looks nothing like Bob Casey, the man he hopes to join in the state’s Senate delegation, let alone Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Chris Dodd, Max Baucus, John Kerry, or Jay Rockefeller, to name a few Democratic senators from 2012. Now take Val Demings, Sen. Marco Rubio’s challenger in Florida. Demings, who represents Florida’s 10th Congressional District and before that was Orlando’s police chief, could’ve walked straight out of a stock photo or central casting. She looks the part: polished, professional. She has everything, in other words, that Fetterman doesn’t. Yet despite their considerable superficial differences, beneath the surface, the Floridian and Pennsylvanian are virtually indistinguishable. As are the other Democrats running for Senate this year. Dissimilar as they may be in terms of outward characteristics such as education, employment, and experience, the one thing they have in common is the most important thing of all: Each of them subscribes to the Democratic...