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Posted on 05/20/2025 11:15:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Like a lot of Democrats these days, Chris Murphy has been doing some soul searching. For years, the Connecticut Senator, who took office shortly after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, was one of the nation’s most outspoken advocates for tighter gun laws. Gun safety was so important, he argued, that supporting an assault-weapons ban should be mandatory for Democratic leaders.
Recently, Murphy has come to believe he was wrong. Not about tougher gun laws, but about trying to force all Democrats to adopt his position. “I bear some responsibility for where we are today,” he told me in a phone interview in April. “I spent a long time trying to make the issue of guns a litmus test for the Democratic Party. I think that all of the interest groups that ended up trying to apply a litmus test for their issue ended up making our coalition a lot smaller.”
Murphy’s shift in thinking is part of the reckoning that has gripped the party since President Donald Trump’s victory in November. Democrats could dismiss Trump’s first win as a fluke. His second, they know, was the product of catastrophic failure—a nationwide rejection of Democratic policies, Democratic messaging, and the Democrats themselves. The party got skunked in every battleground state and lost the popular vote for the first time in 20 years. They lost the House and the Senate. Their support sagged with almost every demographic cohort except Black women and college-educated voters. Only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about the future of the party, according to a May 14 AP poll, down from nearly 6 in 10 last July. Democrats have no mojo, no power, and no unifying leader to look to for a fresh start.
Everyone knows how bad things are. “As weak as I’ve...
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The Democrat Party motto is, and always will be, “Anything to hurt America.”
The Democrat party is made up of hundreds of different special interest groups, many who hold opposing views. The Democrat leadership does not really care about these groups or their causes. The leadership is in for the power and the money and they will vote for what ever crazy idea their extreme supporters want because they are immune to the consequences.
Being super rich allows this.
Isn’t Smurphy the one who said Trump got elected because voters are stupid but were somehow smart enough to vote for him? Or am I thinking of some other demonicRAT asshat? 🤔
What he said was "I'm Behind You, and I'm going to get a better grip on my knife."
To me one of the biggest problems the Democrats have is that they are KNOWN liars. They will say/promise anything to get elected, then ask Schumer/Jefferies how to vote. They will not vote for something that may help the people simply because Trump/Republicans support it.
Tell the people why they should believe any Democrat, young or old.
Stuck on stupid
Exactly - If it’s bad for America, it’s good for them.
Who can blame him. Lock step, hive mentality is how they do business inside their party. If it didn’t work for him on gun control, I think he has cause to be genuinely surprised
Everyone in Dhims party are thinking that way... it doesn’t matter who actually said so..
Everyone in Dhims party are thinking that way... it doesn’t matter who actually said so..
RATS have a strategy.
Murphy has a soul?
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