No translation was required in the version of the quote served up by Fetterman’s staff to Washington Post economics reporter Jeff Stein. Stein repeated the cleaned-up quote verbatim. In the tweet below, Stein apologizes. If Stein seriously think Fetterman is capable of spitting it out straight, he must be limiting his intake of the news to his own newspaper or not paying attention.

With the help of their media adjunct the Democrats have become the Weekend At Bernie’s party.

[Or the Gaslight Party. And it applies to Joe Biden as well as John Fetterman. — Ed]