You remember Reagan Democrats. They were the working-class Democrats who saw something decent and hopeful in Ronald Reagan’s message and crossed party lines to vote for him — maybe the first Republican they had ever voted for.

Something similar could be going on now, except in the opposite direction, as Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania puts distance between himself and the progressive elements of the Democrat Party.

The latest example was when he urged his fellow Democrats to stop the government shutdown they had caused. He supported extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits, he said, “But for me, the kinds of chaos and holding our government hostage is unacceptable. And you can have priorities, but it’s wrong to go shutting our government down, and that’s where we’re at.”

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