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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

He campaigned on being progressive for years, he pretty much never billed himself as a centrist.

Meanwhile in 2024 the man is waving an Israeli flag on a roof over protesters like a psycho.

However, even before elected as a Senator he was extremely pro-Israel so this in particular should not be a shock. He attacked the Dems who, at the time, voted against funding to Israel's Iron Dome and called them fringe and extreme. He strongly opposed BDS and supported a PA state law that banned the state government from entering contracts with companies that boycotted Israel. He outright said while running in 2022 that he intended to "lean in" to the US-Israel relationship.

While he did hold progressive positions on a host of issues, particularly "popular" ones like marijuana, if you poked around you could find things on certain issues - Israel was probably the biggest but there were others.

I think a lot of people took a look at the issues like marijuana and healthcare, combined it with him being the only statewide PA official to endorses Sanders in 2016, and him just giving off a blue collar vibe and assumed he held progressive stances down the line... but I don't think this is him really changing so much as people finding out where he stood on some issues that didn't make the headlines much at the time.