Murphy -- Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, usually cited by the nation’s left-leaning media as the new voice of the new-model neo-progressive Democrat Party, submitted to an interview by National Public Radio’s (NPR) Steve Inskeep following catastrophic party losses in the recently concluded national presidential election. Former President, now President-Elect Donald Trump won the popular vote, the Electoral College vote, and Republicans seized the U.S. Senate and maintained control of the U.S. House of Representatives – an unquestionable rout. Inskeep was better at asking follow-up questions than were the few media interrogators privileged to interview Vice President Kamala Harris. NPR noted that “Democrats,” Murphy among them, “are undergoing some introspection.” Democrats, Murphy advised, “need to listen to working Americans.” Asked, “What do you think is wrong with your party?” Murphy replied, “Right now, people are feeling out of control
It appears to be a clean sweep. Former President Donald Trump is now the President-Elect. The U.S. Senate has fallen into the hands of Republicans, and the U.S. House has followed in its train. The conservative wing of the Republican Party is pretending not to gloat. Leading Democrats are in abject disarray. Their party lies broken between two opposing groups – those who have vowed to continue an absurd politics dramatically rejected by a plurality of voters, and those, fewer in number, who value prudence above campaign braggadocio. Some Democrats have suggested a corrective move to what used to be considered the vital “moderate” center of American politics, but this too may pass. It was German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck who noted that Americans never solve their most pressing problems, choosing instead to “amicably bid them goodbye.” The Democrat effort to install as president a candidate that had awkwardly bypassed all the checks and balances of conventional American presid