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Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who\u2014with his shaved head, his hoodie, and the Zip Code of Braddock, Pennsylvania\u2014could rally working-class white voters to the Democratic Party. But at least on one issue, Fetterman is veering away from the left of his party, and even from centrists like Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. Fetterman has taken a line that is not just sympathetic to Israel after the October 7th attack by Hamas; he seems to justify the civilian death toll Israel has inflicted on Gaza. \u201cWhen you have that kind of an evil, or that kind of a movement that came out of a society,\u201d he told Benjamin Wallace-Wells, \u201cwhether it was Nazi Germany or imperial Japan or the Confederacy here in the South, that kind of movement has to be destroyed. . . . that\u2019s why Atlanta had to burn.\u201d Wallace-Wells shares excerpts from his interviews with Fetterman in a conversation with David Remnick, and they discuss how Fetterman\u2019s support for Israel is driving a wedge among Pennsylvania voters, who will be critical to the outcome of the Presidential election.