What is Brian Fitzpatrick Celebrating this Memorial Day?

Is Fitzpatrick celebrating his deciding vote to pass the One Big Brutal Betrayal Act (OBBBA) and send it to the Senate? The bill that hands DHS and ICE enough money and power to operate with frightening impunity?

Or is he celebrating a voting record that advances—nearly every time it matters—the agenda of the most fascist President this nation has ever seen ? Trump may attack him now and then, but that doesn’t make Fitzpatrick “independent.” It just gives him cover to keep selling the fiction that he’s a “problem solver.”

As one pundit observed, the main problem Fitzpatrick has worked to solve is how to get reelected.

Memorial Day should honor those who fought against authoritarianism and fascism, not politicians who normalize it one vote at a time. Every vote Fitzpatrick casts should be on the side of democracy and against fascism.