Sen. Chris Murphy on the Election and the End of Neoliberalism
Talking Feds
Harry Litman
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Harry talks with Sen. Chris Murphy about a range of subjects, including his recent reelection, his favorite book, and his annual walks across Connecticut. They focus mainly however on Murphy’s thoughts about the reasons for the Democrats 2024 defeat. Murphy had argued that the Democratic Party was ignoring a crisis staring it in the face, born of the inability to connect with Americans’ bleak view of the economy and their growing alienation. As flawed and vicious as Trump’s candidacy was, it had a certain spiritual element of connecting with voters’ deep-seated feelings about a society that is leaving them behind and increasingly isolated and lonely. Murphy talks about how the Democrats can and should advance their own message of meaning and purpose, and what they will need to do in the near future to counter Trump’s expected legal and policy outrages.
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| 0:37.0 | Welcome to Talking Fed's one-on-One, deep-dive discussions with national figures about the most fascinating |
| 0:44.9 | and consequential issues defining our culture and shaping our lives. I'm your host, Harry Littman. |
| 0:53.2 | Welcome to another Talking Fed's One-on-one. We're really honored to have the |
| 0:58.0 | chance to talk today with Senator Chris Murphy, just re-elected by the voters of Connecticut for a third |
| 1:03.4 | term. He has put his stamp on a number of important policy issues, including in particular gun |
| 1:09.5 | control, health care reform, and foreign policy. |
| 1:12.9 | He's known as well for his strong pragmatic bipartisan streak, having built bipartisan |
| 1:18.7 | coalitions for legislation for gun safety, immigration, and mental health. Much more than that, |
| 1:25.0 | he's to my mind, one of the most thoughtful and far-seeing senators |
| 1:28.9 | in the tradition of Daniel Moynihan and William Fulbright, and a student in his own right of political |
| 1:35.6 | thought who can cite de Tocqueville when discussing modern-day America. |
| 1:40.3 | He is the author of The Violence Inside Us, a brief history of an ongoing American tragedy about |
| 1:46.7 | America's gun violence problems, and he writes that there that the Sandy Hook shooting gave him |
| 1:52.6 | his mission in life. He has been also, I would say, a visionary in the Senate on identifying |
| 1:58.7 | and trying to combat the epidemic of loneliness in contemporary America, |
| 2:04.0 | which we covered in a roundtable entitled Lonelyville USA with him and the Surgeon General last year. |
| 2:10.3 | Senator Chris Murphy, thanks very much for joining Talking Fed's. |
| 2:14.2 | Well, a big fan. Great to be with you. Thanks for the opportunity. |
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