Chris Murphy Better Not Be Talking to the People: It Is Media, Operatives, and Even Some Democrats Who Can't Tell Us the Fucking Truth
- john raymond
- Jun 15
- 2 min read
We are long past the point where this country needs a lecture on the dangers of political violence. We do not need another Twitter or BlueSky thread about MAGA’s radicalization, another editorial from a senator who’s just now found the courage to name the thing that’s been burning in plain sight for almost a decade. And most of all, we do not need to be spoken to as if we—the people—are the problem.
The people are not walking on eggshells. The people are not confused. The people have been screaming for years.
The ones still pretending this is a mystery are the ones in power. The media class, the Democratic Party’s risk-averse operatives, the institutional centrists, the consultants, the poll-tested statement drafters. The ones who still whisper about unity as if unity is possible with a movement that openly celebrates violence and sabotage. The ones who still believe that there is honor in balance, even while the scale has tipped over and landed on a the newly dead.
So if Chris Murphy—finally, blessedly—wants to say that MAGA has mainstreamed violence, then good. Say it. But he’d better not be talking to us. Because we already know. What we want now is for someone in his position to stop narrating the fall and start pulling the damn lever that arrests it.
We are being governed by cowards afraid to name their enemies, and by an opposition too polite to stop them.
Let me say this without pretense: this is not a "both sides" issue. It never was. One political movement has embraced the use of violence to maintain power. One man—Trump—has built his resurgence not on policy or performance, but on the explicit promise of retribution and blood. He pardoned insurrectionists. He floated pardons for would-be kidnappers. He openly threatens his opponents. He calls for military force in American cities. His followers have now assassinated multiple public officials—and still, we are asked to pretend this is all just escalation on both sides.
Enough.
When a MAGA loyalist kills someone, it is not a breakdown of discourse. It is the strategy functioning as designed. The violence is not the side effect. The violence is the product. And anyone who continues to walk around that truth as if it’s still forming is complicit in the next attack.
I don’t want your calls for calm. I don’t want your balanced panel. I don’t want another thinkpiece about “division.” I want you to name the threat and dismantle it.
And if you’re not willing to do that, then get the fuck out of the way. Because the people are not confused, and they are not waiting for another permission slip to feel angry.
They are waiting for the ones in power to stop bullshitting them.
Stop telling us that democracy is at risk. We know. Stop asking us to be patient while another Senator gets beaten, or another mayor gets shot. Stop telling us you’re alarmed. Be useful. Be just. Or be gone.
Because the people aren’t walking on eggshells anymore. They’re standing in blood. And they will remember who chose caution while the house was burning.
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