‘[He] can sound like a high school history teacher’
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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,notactually,though.Thenewprinceinquestion,DemocraticConnecticutSen.ChrisMurphy,isprettymuchthemaleversionofClintonandembodieseverythingthathasmadetheDemocraticParty’sbrandunpalatableintheTrumpera.Elitistcareerpolitician?Check.Pedanticuserofthenotoriousd-word,‘democracy’?Check.(SubscribetoMR.RIGHT,aweeklynewsletteraboutmodernmasculinity)
Inaglowingprofile,TheTimesgaveMurphyajournalistictonguebath,raisinghisstatusfromlittle-knownsenatorofatinyNewEnglandstatetovaunted,nationalvoiceonsocialmediaforanewgenerationofliberalpolitics.ButhisnewpositionwithinthepartymayendupbeingagifttoPresidentDonaldTrumpandRepublicanspreciselybecauseheisnodifferentthanthoseestablishmentDemocratswhocamebeforehim.
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