Dem Sen. Murphy: ‘We Became Very Intolerant’ of People Who Differ on Cultural Issues, Guns, Climate

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 14:23:05 | Updated at 2024-11-22 12:57:55 1 week ago

Dem Sen. Murphy: ‘We Became Very Intolerant’ of People Who Differ on Cultural Issues, Guns, Climate
Breitbart ^ | 11/14/2024 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 11/14/2024 6:17:02 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that the Democratic Party “became very intolerant, very judgmental of people who thought differently than us on social and cultural issues and other tough subjects like guns and climate.” And the party should be more centered around economic issues while allowing internal debates “on other social and cultural issues,” but the party has created a lot of litmus tests and become “pretty exclusionary, and is shrinking, not growing.”

Murphy stated, “[W]e became very intolerant, very judgmental of people who thought differently than us on social and cultural issues and other tough subjects like guns and climate. I think we should return to the party we were in the ’70s and ’80s, when we had economics as the tent pole, and then we let people in who thought differently than us on other social and cultural issues, and we fought out those debates inside that tent. That’s a difficult thing for the Democratic Party to do, because we have applied a lot of litmus tests over the years. But those litmus tests have added up to a party that is pretty exclusionary, and is shrinking, not growing.”

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KEYWORDS: climate; cultural; guns; intolerant; issues; murphy; people

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STFU hypocrite

To: ChicagoConservative27

Too late, Chris. You let the wackos in, you won’t get them out. Your only option will be to nuke this thing your party has become and start over. The stench of this will linger for years and years.

2 posted on 11/14/2024 6:19:27 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)

To: ChicagoConservative27

At least this excuse for why they lost is accurate.

But will they change? Never.

3 posted on 11/14/2024 6:19:54 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)

To: ChicagoConservative27

Should have picked the 90’s as his exemplar and the great tech explosion, etc. But really, it’s hard to pick an era where they were successful.

4 posted on 11/14/2024 6:21:14 AM PST by Religion and Politics (Can’t we all just get along? :))

To: ChicagoConservative27

Damn right. They all need a boot in the keister through the goalposts of life. If I’ve got to put up with those SOBs making their Mehican drug cartels and human traffickers millionaires, they can sure as hell put up with my guns and my fossil fuel burner.

5 posted on 11/14/2024 6:22:11 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)

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