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Turns out John Fetterman is standing outside the Democrat Party's "big tent." One day after socialist favorite Abdul El-Sayed squeaked past Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Sen. John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, went on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and was asked the obligatory question. Would he unify behind the new nominee?His answer was not exactly a group hug."Oh, yeah, the tough guy. He called me ugly, and then I should be on a pike. And I'm like, 'Chief, I own mirrors, I know I'm an ugly guy,'" Fetterman said, referencing El-Sayed's leaked donor call where he mused about putting "one ogre on a pike" to send a message to Democrats who step out of line. Fetterman added that El-Sayed has "a little man syndrome kind of energy."Then came the part that should terrify party leadership."I can't come together with someone if you are willing to embrace people that loves Hamas or that thinks America deserved 9/11," Fetterman said. "That's not a big tent situation. There are things that are unacceptable to have these views as a Democrat, I think."Imagine that. A sitting Democrat senator saying out loud that some things are disqualifying.Here is the thing. Fetterman is absolutely right, and it is hilarious watching his party pretend otherwise. A call to come together works fine when the disagreement is over tax rates or highway funding. It does not work when one side is asked to link arms with people who excuse Hamas, suggest America had 9/11 coming, or want to bulldoze the entire constitutional order and rebuild it as a socialist project.You cannot compromise your way to the middle of insanity. Half of crazy is still crazy.So the Democrat Party now has a genuine problem. The "big tent" crowd is about to discover the tent was quietly replaced with a commune. Do they reconcile with it, or do they abdicate the party entirely? And if they jump ship, where exactly do they think they are swimming?Fetterman just laid it out for the world. The only question is how many Democrats privately agree with him.