Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) recently appeared on New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s “Interesting Times” podcast. The conversation touched on several big political topics, but one moment stood out — not for its insight, but for its sheer evasiveness.
Douthat asked Murphy whether he found it unfair for biological males to compete in girls’ sports. Murphy’s answer? “I don’t have girls.”
The facts are indisputable: Chris Murphy stands on the wrong side of one of the clearest-cut issues in American politics.
Instead of addressing a question that concerns millions of American families, the senator dismissed it based on the composition of his own household. When Douthat pressed him to show empathy for those who do have daughters, Murphy claimed that “lots of parents of girls” in Connecticut don’t see any problem with it.
Really, Senator? On an 80-20 issue, your go-to argument rests on anecdotal outliers who are fine with their daughters competing against biological males? As Joe Biden might say, c’mon, man!
Sure, such parents exist — but they’re rare. The overwhelming majority of moms and dads, whether they have daughters or not, understand that allowing males to compete in girls’ sports is fundamentally unfair.
You don’t need to have a daughter to see the injustice. Anyone paying attention can recognize a rigged contest when a biological male steps onto the field, court, or track. As a mother of three sons, I understand the biological differences firsthand — and I’ve seen just how dangerous it can be when girls are forced to compete against boys.
Murphy surely understands this too. He even mentioned that his sons play competitive travel sports. Every father of male athletes knows the advantage boys possess. The idea that Murphy genuinely believes girls can fairly compete against biological males stretches the bounds of credibility. More likely, partisan ideology has overridden his common sense.
Reserving girls’ sports for girls isn’t discrimination. Saying you’re a girl doesn’t make you one. Female athletes have no obligation to indulge a make-believe ideology that denies biological reality.
Since Congress passed Title IX in 1972, women and girls have had the legal right to fair competition, which includes female-only athletic events and locker rooms. That means girls shouldn’t be forced to change clothes next to males or be exposed to male genitalia in private spaces — yet Murphy supports exactly that, so long as those males claim to identify as female.
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This is not a fringe position. It is now the standard view of the Democratic Party and most public school districts. And it has consequences.
When boys enter girls’ events, girls lose — podium spots, medals, school records, regional and national competition slots, even college scholarships. They lose their shot at excellence. They lose their privacy. And apparently, if you ask Senator Murphy, that’s just fine — because his kids aren’t affected.
After some prodding from Douthat, Murphy finally gave a definitive answer: “Yes, my conclusion is that I would support those athletes being able to participate in my community.”
But who are “those athletes”? He means males who identify as females. And yes, they absolutely should be allowed to participate — on boys’ teams.
Title IX applies in every zip code. It was written to protect girls. It still does — if we enforce it.
Whether Senator Murphy genuinely believes what he said or is simply toeing the Democratic Party line is a question only he and his conscience can answer. But the facts are indisputable: He stands on the wrong side of one of the clearest-cut issues in American politics. He may not have daughters, but that does not excuse him from standing up for those who do.
As President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security works to clean up the illegal immigration crisis caused by the former Biden administration, a leaked internal memo from the department named several "open borders politicians" who allegedly defended "illegal alien rapists, murders, [and] pedophiles."
The unclassified memo accused progressive politicians of prioritizing illegal immigrant criminals and violent rioters over law enforcement and their American citizen constituents, citing the recent destructive and violent protests in Los Angeles, California, last week.
'ICE, get the f**k out of LA so that order can be restored.'
"Since June 6, thousands of violent rioters protesting [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] operations in Los Angeles have assaulted law enforcement officers with concrete chunks and Molotov cocktails, attacked federal buildings, burned cars, and destroyed other public and private property throughout the city," the leaked memo read. "Still, open borders politicians have consistently defended, excused and denied the violence."
The DHS accused the leftist politicians of attempting to blame the lawless protests on ICE.
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"Leftists slander law enforcement, lie about Trump policies, and praise illegal aliens," the memo continued.
The department's internal document listed several Democratic politicians: former Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Maxine Waters of California. Additionally, it referred to Rep. Norma Torres of California but mistakenly listed her as "Yvette Torres."
The DHS included quotes from each of the individuals to support its claims that the politicians "put Americans last" by defending illegal alien criminals.
It quoted Harris stating, "Demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful."
The memo noted that Newsom, during his June 10th address to California, said, "[Trump's] administration is pushing mass deportations, indiscriminately targeting hardworking immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk. What's happening right now is very different than anything we've seen before."
A comment attributed to Bass read, "Stop the raids. There is a real fear in Los Angeles right now. Parents, workers, grandparents, young people scared to go about their daily lives. We are a city of immigrants. Washington is attacking our people, our neighborhoods, and our economy."
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The DHS quoted Sen. Murphy stating, "This is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country. ... [President Trump is] trying to turn a protest that is pretty small into something that involves an even bigger confrontation."
It included a comment from Ocasio-Cortez that read, "It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock, rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence."
"ICE, get the f**k out of L.A. so that order can be restored," Torres was cited as saying.
Waters was quoted as stating, "Don't think that somehow, because they called out the National Guard, there was violence. There was no violence."
DHS noted that ICE arrested "murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and other heinous scumbags" during the Los Angeles operation.
The department stated that the leftist politicians have continued to "stand firmly with foreign nationals invading America and causing mayhem" and therefore "do not care about the American people's safety or law enforcement."
The DHS added that the politicians' policies would "never put America first" and that they are "squarely on the side of criminal illegal aliens."
"The Trump Administration will always put the American people first and defend law enforcement working to keep America safe," the department concluded.
Representatives for Harris, Newsom, Ocasio-Cortez, Bass, Torres, Waters, and Murphy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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Democrats are making a full-court press to woo men back to the party, with the New York Times recently reporting that donors are considering a $20 million effort to connect with the more “privileged” sex. The plan apparently includes studying the “syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality in [male] spaces.”
It’s good that the party finally realized that alienating half the electorate is an unwise political strategy. Kamala Harris lost the male vote to President Donald Trump in 2024 by 10 points. The president won 60% of the white male vote, along with 54% of the Hispanic male vote and 21% of the black male vote. Those results are unsustainable.
A party beholden to feminists who think traditional masculinity is toxic will never prioritize the needs of the average American male.
But I have news for donors that will save them from wasting time and money: A party can’t do meaningful outreach to people they resent.
That may sound like a harsh assessment of the left’s relationship to men, but it’s true. What’s also true is that the problems Democrats have with messaging to men are primarily ideological, not rhetorical. That’s because the modern Democratic Party has a broad coalition of voters who hate any expression of traditional masculinity. This includes both liberal and radical feminists, LGBTQ+ activists who want to change the definitions of “male” and “female” altogether, and self-flagellating male “allies” who feel duty-bound to rid themselves publicly of their “toxic masculinity.”
The party’s inability to reach men is a structural — not syntactical — problem.
Men in previous generations, including the white majority, had a home in the Democratic Party. At that time, Democrats campaigned on bread-and-butter issues, such as jobs and education. They still talk about those issues today, but they occupy a much different space within the left’s business model.
Issues like the economy, health care, and even race could be viewed as “expenses” Democrats are willing to pay in order to sell their preferred “products”: abortion, all things related to LGBTQ+ Pride, and climate change.
In fact, progressives are so invested in “transgender rights” that they are willing to throw women under the bus to do so. That’s why Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said he would support boys who identify as girls competing against natal females in sports. Any man watching the left dump its commitment to second-wave feminism in favor of first-wave “theminism” would be a fool to think Democrats would be loyal to him.
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The modern left prioritizes “marginalized” identities more than anything, which makes straight white Christian males apex oppressors in the left’s intersectional “Hunger Games.” This warped worldview puts Democrats in a bind. They want to win back men, but at the same time, they don’t want to upset the coalition of “oppressed” groups who look to them for protection from the “orange menace” currently in the White House — especially since some of the men they’re courting voted for Trump in 2024.
No one on the left wants to be blamed for bringing in a new batch of men into the party whose land acknowledgments are some version of, “My ancestors were settlers, and I don’t apologize for the country they’ve built.”
The truth is, the party whose symbol is a donkey is only interested in male “mules” — men willing to leverage their male “privilege” on behalf of the feminists, abortionists, and Pride activists who hold all the sway on the modern left. That means a black Christian man who is solidly pro-life has no space in the modern Democratic Party, while a white male feminist wearing a shirt with the slogan “The future is female” is a useful ally.
Men can sense the resentment, and many won’t be swayed by effete influencers who binge Joe Rogan interviews and practice their “bro” lingo in the mirror. A political movement can’t spend decades telling men that their very nature is problematic and then act surprised when the people they’ve been chastising defect in large numbers.
The irony is that when these efforts fail to produce the results the party desires, progressive pundits will respond 95% of the time with the type of preachy scolding from the same bitter “cat ladies” who drove men away from the left in the first place.
This is why any attempts to win young men back to the left will ultimately fail without a major change in the party’s priorities. A party beholden to feminists who think traditional masculinity is toxic will never prioritize the needs of the average American male.
Throughout former President Joe Biden's term, Americans watched as their commander in chief tumbled down stairs and fumbled through lines often fed to him from a teleprompter.
Everyone could see the truth: Biden was not mentally fit for office. Although his decline was blatantly obvious to onlookers, Biden's political allies in Congress, in media, and even in the White House bent over backwards to conceal it, essentially gaslighting Americans for four years.
Even after Biden's infamous debate performance in 2024 against now-President Donald Trump, Democratic lawmakers turned a blind eye.
Now that the dam has broken, Democrats are flooding social media and news articles recanting their views on the former president's condition.
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Just months after the consequential election, Democrats are finally admitting that Biden may not have been as young and spry as they all claimed he was. This shift has largely been greenlit by the upcoming book "Original Sin," penned by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson, detailing Biden's decline during his presidency and on the campaign trail. Notably, Tapper was complicit in the cover-up that he is now credited with unveiling.
Now that the dam has broken, Democrats are flooding social media and news articles recanting their views on the former president's condition.
On the topic of Biden's cognitive decline, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut recently said there was "no doubt about it." Ironically, Murphy was one of the most outspoken allies defending Biden's fitness throughout his presidency and his re-election campaign, calling reports of his decline a "Fox News trope."
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Similarly, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California recently conceded that Democrats should not have allowed Biden to run in 2024 in light of "facts that have come out." If there was any confusion about Biden's health leading up to the election, his disastrous debate made it clear as day, Khanna indicated.
Khanna sang a different tune less than a year ago, defending Biden immediately after the debate and even likening him to fictional boxing champion Rocky Balboa.
"Rocky wasn't the most eloquent in speech," Khanna said. "But he was a fighter. His character conveyed his eloquence. Our message: Biden's character is his eloquence."
Other lawmakers complicit in the cover-up are looking for another off-ramp.
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg admitted that Democrats "maybe" would have done better if Biden had never made a re-election bid but stopped just short of confessing culpability. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of the swing state of Michigan deflected altogether, saying she was "halfway across the country" in 2024 and was "busy working."
Whether or not they're willing to admit it, it's clear Democrats are still trying to recover from a serious misstep.
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