Spare Us, Senator Murphy

The Connecticut Democrat was nowhere to be found as the Biden administration kept lurching leftward, but now he thinks Democrats need to listen to people outside their coalition.

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Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) speaks in the spin room ahead of the debate between Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Pa., September 10, 2024.

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Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) has some ideas about why his party lost control of the Senate and lost the presidency to Donald Trump for the second time. “Time to rebuild the left,” Murphy said in a thread on X, formerly Twitter. “We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small.”

So far, so good. Democrats and the media are increasingly one and the same, and they are out of touch and distrusted by a majority of Americans. But why? That’s the part Murphy doesn’t understand at all.

Dominic Pino

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Dominic Pino

Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

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