“I don’t agree with him,” Carrie Adams, Fetterman’s communications director, told the Free Press. “I have a sense that his international views are a lot less nuanced than my generation, because when he was growing up, it was might makes right, and for my generation and younger who, of course, are the ones protesting this, they have a much more nuanced view of the region.” ...

For a person in the political world to so egregiously misconstrue the beliefs of a mainstream constituency — to be so wrong, even if sincere — is one thing. To do it to your own boss, whom you are professionally responsible for painting in the best light, is another.