Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, sounded an extraordinary warning this week. After a House GOP report recommended that the FBI prosecute Liz Cheney, Murphy argued in a social media thread that Donald Trump is clearly putting in place a plan to cripple our democracy, one we might never recover from. In an interview with the podcast, Murphy expands on his alarm, arguing that within a few months, some of Trump’s enemies might be in jail, the media might be cowed into submission, and that Democrats need to sound the alarm before it’s too late, lest Trump’s attacks on democracy prove “fatal.” Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
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Shocker From Chris Murphy: We May Not Have a Democracy for Much Longer
The Democratic senator argues in an interview that Trump’s attacks on democracy are an emergency and that Dems cannot let his profoundly unfit nominees and cowing of the media become seen as normal.
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Senator Chris Murphy in Chicago, on August 21
