Posted on 08/19/2024 10:13:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In December 2022, early into what he now describes as his political journey, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut gave a speech warning his fellow Democrats that they were ignoring a crisis staring them in the face.
For over a year, President Biden and his allies had been promoting data showing an economic miracle, as friendly pundits described it — a record-setting stock market, low unemployment and G.D.P. growth outpacing that of almost every other Western nation. But very few voters believed the story those metrics were telling. In poll after poll, they expressed a bleak view of the economy — to the frustration of both Democrats and many economists.
Mr. Murphy thought he knew why. “The challenges America faces aren’t really logistical,” he told the crowd. “They are metaphysical. And the sooner we understand the unspooling of identity and meaning that is happening in America today, the sooner we can come up with practical policies to address this crisis.”
The subject of the speech was what Mr. Murphy called the imminent “fall of American neoliberalism.” This may sound like strange talk from a middle-of-the-road Democratic senator, who up until that point had never seemed to believe that the system that orders our world was on the verge of falling. He campaigned for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primaries, and his most visible political stance up until then was his work on gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting.
Thoughtful but prone to speaking in talking points, he still comes off more like a polished Connecticut dad than a champion of the disaffected...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
.....”This may sound like strange talk from a middle-of-the-road Democratic senator.....”
...I guess it depends on what your definition of “middle-of-the-road” is....this is a snippet from an AP article this past May.....
....”Connecticut Democrats unanimously endorsed U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy for a third term on Saturday, praising his efforts on gun control [i.e., confiscation], immigration reform [i.e. open borders] and foreign policy......”
That’s a long winded way of saying “The democrats aren’t lying well enough.”
LIke that Don Lemon street interview where he tries to tell a man that he really is making more money now after the man said he was making more money when Trump was president. The democrats just aren’t lying enough.
Walz needs to stop sniffing used tampons.
Murphy is a gun grabbing clown—and his supporters are all busy feeding at the .gov trough.
The notion that he could be an agent for positive change is hilarious.
He is the problem—and can never be the solution.
Ecomnomic miracle????
US Leading Economic Indicators Down For 29th Straight Month!
“middle-of-the-road Democratic senator,”
There is no such thing.
About a decade ago, Manchin probably would have qualified. He is WAY off the reservation now.
Makes perfect sense if you realize there are only left lanes on the Democrat road.
He’s about the 7th lane from the right on a 10 lane democrat superhighway.
Well it always stinks under a democrat’s nose
“Mr. Murphy is a team player and has publicly been fully supportive of Ms. Harris, but he also wants Democrats to squarely acknowledge the crisis he believes the country is facing and to offer a vision to unmake the “massive concentration of corporate power” that he thinks is the source of these feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.”
Sure thing. I can’t possibly be the pervasive single-mother households that are the norm in the black and Hispanic communities, and growing in prevalence in white communities.
The last middle of the road Dem left the Senate in 1997.
manpons
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