Democrats’ New Spokesman Might Be The Biggest Gift They Could Give TrumpJohn Loftus
Editor at Large
February 27, 2025 2:23 PM ET
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The New York Times has crowned a fresh Resistance leader to fight back against the fascist Trump/Musk administration: a former establishment neoliberal posing as a populist who makes Hillary Clinton look like a rogue libertarian strapped with an AR-15.
Okay, not actually, though. The new prince in question, Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, is pretty much the male version of Clinton and embodies everything that has made the Democratic Party’s brand unpalatable in the Trump era. Elitist career politician? Check. Pedantic user of the notorious d-word, ‘democracy’? Check.
In a glowing profile, The Times gave Murphy a journalistic tongue bath, raising his status from little-known senator of a tiny New England state to vaunted, national voice on social media for a new generation of liberal politics. But his new position within the party may end up being a gift to President Donald Trump and Republicans precisely because he is no different than those establishment Democrats who came before him.
Murphy has expressed a desire for Democrats to breakaway from decades of neoliberalism, which he describes as the “belief that markets and in particular global markets will work for the benefit of the common good with light adjustments here or there by the government,” and even acknowledged that the Democratic Party’s brand is in shambles and desperate need of rebuilding.
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