Murphy, The George Soros of Democrat Leftism

Murphy

Connecticut Democrat U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, NBC tells us, “is donating $100,000 from his political fund to the progressive organizing group Indivisible — the latest in a series of donations he says total nearly $1 million to grassroots groups across the country taking on the Trump administration.  Among the “grassroots” agitprop groups Murphy is financing from his overflowing campaign donations are leftist agitators such as Indivisible,  “the progressive-aligned nonprofit group that has been holding ‘No Kings’ rallies across the country to protest Trump,” according to NBC.

 

So then, why is Murphy diverting his own excess campaign funds to such groups?

Murphy ‘splained himself to NBC reporters Julie Tsirkin and Ben Kamisar.

 

Murphy “declared in an interview that the usual way politicians raise money — stockpiling assets in the years before they’re on the ballot again — doesn’t meet the moment for the Democratic Party, which is trying to mobilize against President Donald Trump and Republicans. And he claimed that the stakes of this political moment are about democracy itself.

 

There are several things wrong with Murphy’s rational. Despite the scare tactics of Indivisible’s “No Kings” campaign, the 22^nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limits presidential campaigns to eight years. That amendment was passed in 1947 by a U.S. Congress that feared an additional fifth term in office for President Franklin Roosevelt might send a message that unlimited terms in office would introduce executive tyranny into a Republic than had cast off the imperial ambitions of King George of Merry England. Unfortunately, some people think, the Congress limited its measure only to presidents and not legislators. It is true that Trump amusingly suggested a third term for himself. Most rational commentators supposed he was pulling the ears of a donkey that, for campaign purposes, had been braying for half a dozen years that Trump was a tyrant in the fashion of FDR.

 

“There’s something magic that happens when millions of people are mobilized all around the country,” Murphy confided to NBC. “It just throws sand in the gears of an effort to try to convert a democracy to something very different… We may not have another election, at least a free and fair election, if we don’t stop this slide away from free speech and democracy quickly. And what we know from history is that the only way to stop a, you know, would-be tyrant from cratering, from destroying a democracy is mass mobilization.”

 

The response to Murphy’s fantasy from White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson was nearly instantaneous. "Right before Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” Jackson mused, “Chris Murphy told his supporters they were in a 'war' and needed to do 'whatever is necessary' to win. In the wake of radical left-wing violence, Murphy has doubled down by peddling insane conspiracy theories like this one."

 

Murphy offered mild criticism of other Democrats who are unwilling to follow his lead. 

 

 “The Democratic Party, he pointed out, “is not popular today, and so that means that the DNC is going to have trouble raising money for the foreseeable future. So we can complain about that, or we can do something about it. There are individual Democratic leaders who have the ability to raise a lot of money right now because we have credibility, and so I think that means we have an obligation to take our ability to raise resources and not just use it to fill our coffers and show personal future political strength, but to put it on the ground right now. If 20 or 30 major Democratic leaders started putting this kind of money on the ground, we could fund something pretty significant.”

 

Credibility and popularity, like love and marriage, go together, especially in non-fascist governments such as our constitutional republic.

 

Murphy, people on both sides of the political aisle may agree, has been a money maker for Democrats. In the past, Democrat incumbents in safe districts have generated excessive campaign contributions and plowed their assets into party formation. Rosa DeLauro in Connecticut’s 3^rd District has been famous for flushing her sizable excess campaign contributions into state Democrat Party coffers; ditto John Larson in the state’s 1^st District.

 

Murphy is here blazing a new path the purpose of which appears to be to prevent Trump from becoming a tyrant who may, like FDR, serve more than two terms – a fool’s errand. There are a little more than 1,200 days left in the Trump presidency, and the clock is ticking.

 

Democrats are hoping their implausible rhetoric will erase in the public mind a recent history that does not politically stand them in good stead. That history – not ancient – includes two assassination attempts on Trump, two failed attempts to remove him from office, a fake “dossier” submitted to a FISA court that launched hundreds of fake headlines suggesting that Trump was the tool of Russian Stalinist Vladimir Putin, the destructor-elect of Ukraine, and the imputation that Trump will extend his “tyranny” past two terms in office. In a few months, time will accomplish what Murphy has not.

 

Unless Democrats soon begin to focus on workable policies and stop supporting real enemies of the Republic such as Zohran Mamdani, the next Democrat Marxist/Communist mayor of New York City, the future of the Democrat Party will remain dark.