Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Long ago, in Hannah Arendt's classic work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, she identified social isolation as a key driver of loss of faith in democracy. It's time we realized that the increasing loneliness of Americans is a political issue. https://t.co/qyGsfWW5zv — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

RT @RonaldKlain: Not an accident. Not happenstance. The consequence of a Biden-Harris economic plan with “Made in America” at its heart.… — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

We just passed 500 contributions to @CheriBeasleyNC if that makes you feel any better. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

RT @brianschatz: WE ARE AT 437 DONORS LFG — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

So it's likely not true. But NC will decide control of the Senate. And as of 9:30 EST we are at 380. Here's what I CAN promise. Brian, Cory and I will get together next week and record personalized thank you videos to tonight's 400th and 500th donors. Let's go. 120 to go. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Thank you! Just think - when we win North Carolina (polls are tied today), everyone that donates today owns a little piece of that victory!! https://t.co/e6ccpwsyi9 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

If you’re wondering: 1. The score of my son’s hockey game is 2-0 us. 2. We just crossed 200 donations! Let’s keep it up. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

RT @rumpfshaker: *8 million* people were added on to the NICS list that banned them from buying guns after the #FixNICS bill (supported by… — PolitiTweet.org

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Actually pretty impressive, Mayor. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CoryBooker: Brian! @brianschatz, Chris! @ChrisMurphyCT - WE CAN WIN IN N. CAROLINA. And all but insure that Mitch McConnell doesn't ge… — PolitiTweet.org

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I feel like now that you’ve already agreed to this, @brianschatz I really don’t have to. You’d look better bald than me anyway. 500 donations to @CheriBeasleyNC today! See link in this thread. Let’s go! — PolitiTweet.org

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I don’t remember this coming up in today’s daily 6am Booker/Schatz/Murphy zoom call. But we should get 500 people to give to @CheriBeasleyNC anyway. We can win this race. I’m in for that. Pls give thru the link in Cory’s tweet below. Now!! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PostOpinions: A Republican takeover could mean the end of much of our support for Ukraine, @ChrisMurphyCT tells @paulwaldman1 and @TheP… — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ This is a dystopia, but a true possibility. Trump and the new right are more aligned than ever today. So it's time we call out the new right for its radical belief structure, before it's too late. — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ If the new right wins power through its alignment with Trump, what is likely to occur is no shift in economic power; just a replacement of participatory democracy with some version of a Christian theocracy that rolls back individual and civil rights. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ Similarly, the new rights talks a lot about destroying the "regime" of economic/media/academic power, but it's all bluster. They provide almost no ideas of how to do this. In the end, the new right feels like a creative populist front for conservative finance and tech elites. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ Tellingly, the new right talks a lot about social but not economic restraints. "I no longer believe democracy and freedom are compatible", says the new right's patron, Peter Thiel. But what he wants is less consumer regulation and more freedom for monopoly power. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ Democracy is also dangerous to the new right bc it allows progressives to win power. And the new right views the left as an existential threat to America. "The true enemy", said Arizona's Blake Masters. Any means necessary to destroy the left is justified by the new right. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Further, the new right believes democracy has outlived its usefulness. Democracy is too inefficient, and voters are too dumb. Curtis Yarvin, the intellectual muse of the new right, supports a monarchy, writing: "Democracy...is just impossible. With today’s voters, at least". — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ Essentially, the new right wants to roll back American social progress 100 years. Women should know their place (behind men), and "multiculturalism" is corrosive. America needs a dominant culture, says the new right, and it should be white and patriarchal. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ The new right believes that humans require strict behavior constraints, and that government should be organized to impose these constraints through a type of Christian neo-theocracy. That's why the new right supports bans on abortion and homosexuality. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ At its heart, the new right represents a rejection of classic liberalism - the idea that individual rights, free but fair markets, and democracy best secure happiness. "A free life is hell on earth", one of their thought leaders wrote this weekend. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

The new right is the growing intellectual backbone of the Trump movement. After reading this article over the summer, I went on a deep dive to learn it. You need to know it too. It's not fringe. It's real and it's dangerous. 1/ Here's a quick primer. https://t.co/yqd0jY9NA4 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KevinOConnorNBA: Incredible https://t.co/WzKgZLvCtn — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

My President. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

I think for-profit hospitals are a terrible health care innovation. One reason is that all the non-profits now feel like they need to act like for-profits. https://t.co/y7XMLstjaX — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

@Ndawsari @IlhanMN @RoKhanna This is a fun Twitter tactic. Do zero research to see what a progressive has said on Iran and then claim that progressives are silent. I get it when pure trolls do something this inane, but not when it’s DC think tanks! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AOC: @Ostrov_A This is completely false. Here is just one example from 9/21 of what I’ve been sharing on various platforms. Try checkin… — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Everyone needs to see this. He’s off his rocker. Completely. And one of two major political parties in America follows him obediently. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

RT @ranarahimpour: I’ve covered #Iran for 15 years and lived there for 25 yrs. I believe what we are witnessing now is nothing like before.… — PolitiTweet.org