Chris Murphy, Uber-Progressive

U.S. Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy was first swept into the U.S. Congress in 2007 during the Barrack Obama undertow. His defeat of long term Republican U.S. Representative Nancy Johnson raised some crooked eyebrows among fiscally conservative but socially liberal Republicans and Democrats. The Obama wave did not dissipate and, two years later, the state bid goodbye to Republican U.S. Representative Chris Shays, a fiscally conservative, socially liberal cardboard cut-out. Murphy has served in the U.S. Senate since 2013 having won a seat vacated by long-term U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman.

Presently, Connecticut’s Governor, all the members of the state’s U.S. Congressional Delegation and all the state’s Constitutional officers are Democrats. In addition, Democrats within the state’s General Assembly enjoy a nearly veto-proof majority over Democrat Governor Ned Lamont – not that the dominant Democrat General Assembly will ever need to exercise its veto. Lamont, as everyone in the state well knows, is infinitely malleable, more than eager to please his fellow legislative Democrats and the state’s powerful public employee union leaders from whom Democrats lower on the political scale receive their marching orders in the form of contracts enforceable by Connecticut’s third branch of government, a judiciary that owes its allegiance to dominant Democrats. There are, by way of example, no State Supreme Court justices who have been placed in their seats by conservative Republican governors and affirmed by conservative members of the General Assembly.

A one-party state of this magnitude is breathtakingly historic, even for Connecticut, a state that has no intention of giving even a crust of political bread to minority Republicans. Even less, is the state’s neo-progressive media willing to give a column inch to state conservative opinion. Conservatism in a state that is wall-to-wall neo-progressive on social issues is a disturber of the political peace. The status quo must be preserved at all costs, most especially by neo-progressives who regard themselves as the point of a politically transformative spear that will drive interloping conservatives from the Democrat’s neo-progressive political temple. One of the most enduring belly-laugh myths of neo-progressive Connecticut is that progressives are the party of change. They are the party of the status quo, and have been so, especially in Connecticut impoverished cities, for nearly a half century.

If something in Connecticut cities isn’t working, the blame cannot be laid at the feet of powerful urban conservative political machines.

In political jargon, we call all this a rout.

The one party state is by definition a politically autocratic, anti-democratic regime committed to a politics of force. Democracy presumes an effective and operative minority party resistance that is not jailed by dominant rulers, or effectively silenced by a compliant, subservient media.

“Quick on the trigger” Murphy has not yet referred to current President Donald Trump as “Stalinist.” Murphy prefers to slap Trump in the face with Mein Kampf. As we all know, Joseph Stalin was much in the habit of shooting or jailing much of his political opposition. Once he liberated Russia from a feeble anti-Stalinist opposition, he softened somewhat and merely sent opposition party malingerers – clergy, engineers, teachers, journalists, municipal opposition leaders, etc. -- to long Siberian exile in camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn called “The Gulag Archipelago.” He starved Ukraine into submission by creating a famine in the country that effectively murdered 8-10 million Ukrainians.

Most recently “hair-trigger” Murphy responded to a presumed, but fake, “Lara Trump Page” site posted below:

Murphy commented: “@ChrisMurphyCT -- It takes some fucking gall to have Vance lecturing Europe on “free speech” when at the exact same time the Trump regime is threatening Democrats back home with arrest if they even explain people’s rights to them.”

Another commenter immediately noted: ‘This is a screenshot of a parody account of Lara Trump [emphasis mine]. Her real account is below and no such post exists: x.com/laraleatrump?s” …

Murphy’s political opponents have been gleefully rolling him in mirth. White House scorches 'moron' left-wing senator for seething over 'obvious' Trump family parody account: "You are a moron, Chris. It is obvious this page is not affiliated with President Trump, his family, or the administration. We do, however, support your right to make such a statement, no matter how imbecilic it makes you look," the White House's X account, Rapid Response 47, said in a message posted on Friday.”

“Against the assault of laughter,” Mark Twain wrote, “nothing can stand.” Laughter is the best emetic.

“Suppose you were an idiot,” Twain wrote, “and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

And indispensably important for politicians, “Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.”

It is the business of a good journalist to remember what politicians have said and to spring it on an amnesiac public before the absurdities of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow blunt the ensuing remediating laughter.