Fetterman taped a Republican convention video, fundraised off it on ActBlue, now fundraises on GOP donor lists.

…(cont) Walk it back and the handoff has a paper trail. On September 4, Representative Brendan Boyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said of his own state's senator, after reports that he was neglecting the duties of the office, "John Fetterman is a disgrace" — a lazy trust fund baby, in Boyle's words. Five days later a pre-recorded video from that same sitting Democratic senator played on the opening night of the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas, introducing Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick as a great American and friend, praising Trump, filed under Team PA.

The next day he sent a fundraising text springboarding off the cameo. It highlighted his bipartisan work with McCormick. It linked to ActBlue. Read that sequence flat, in order: appear for the Republicans, then bill the Democratic payment rail for the appearance. Twelve days later, the Republican donor lists. The direction of travel is not ambiguous, and nobody involved is hiding it, because hiding it was never the plan.

Pennsylvania's largest newspaper did the math out loud the same day as the text. The Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board: "News flash: U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is still an embarrassment. The Pennsylvania Democrat enjoys one of the cushiest jobs in America, but he can't perform basic duties." Stephen A. Smith, asked on News Nation whether the convention video was common sense, said "Hell no," and called it pretty much spitting in the face of the Democrats who elected him.

Here is the part the caucus would rather you skip. In that same stretch, Democratic primary voters in Rhode Island denied a sitting governor renomination, 62.5 to 37.5 with eighty percent counted, and threw out Providence's mayor. Voters fired two incumbents in one night. That is the tool. It exists, it works, and it is the only one that does — because a caucus card costs a party nothing to leave in place, and it did.

So keep the receipts in order. The seat was won with Democratic votes. The endorsement went to a Republican. The Democratic rail took the donation. The Republican list takes the next one. Your kid's school is not on any of these lists. There is money in this story. There is quite a lot of it. It is moving.