But it would have sent a message that the Democratic Party is not going to be bullied by Donald Trump.
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Chris Scott Murphy is a United States Senator from Connecticut, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Murphy has been a prominent advocate for various progressive issues, including gun control, healthcare reform, and climate change action. He has played a significant role in national discussions surrounding these topics, often emphasizing the need for legislative changes to address pressing societal challenges.
Senator Schumer certainly can lead this caucus. He can lead this caucus. But we need to have a conversation inside the caucus about whether we are willing to stand up to Republicans.
If we don’t get that right, if we continue to work with Republicans, if we continue to hand Donald Trump more power, we are going to lose our democracy.
If our new reality is that a president can disappear an opposition protester, with no charges filed against then, we are not America any longer. Today it’s Mahmoud Khalil. Tomorrow, it’s me or you.
Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.
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We’ve been on this journey since the 1980s to lionize the individual and marginalize the common good, and I think that’s been really harmful for men.
Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.
Richard is providing this gift, which is a safe place to talk about these issues and help on terminology and language.
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we don’t have another year to fight this attempt to destroy democracy. Our democracy might be gone in six months.
It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Donald Trump on an issue like this.
I’m of the school that you have to fight every day and that if you don’t, people aren’t going to think that it’s a red alert moment.
When somebody is trying to grab power, when somebody is trying to destroy democracy, they benefit from people who are static, who refuse to be nimble.
I mean, every Democrat could just continue to run in the same direction they’ve been running for the last 10 years.
We don’t have another year to fight this attempt to destroy democracy. Our democracy might be gone in six months.
A lot of people in the Democratic Party tried to make it sound like Bernie was divisive, when, in fact, Bernie’s message, still to this day, speaks to a lot of folks that voted for Donald Trump.
I just wake up every day and say what I feel and I think, and it sort of feels to me that these days, authenticity is the only thing that matters in politics.
we don’t have another year to fight this attempt to destroy democracy. Our democracy might be gone in six months.





