Sen. Chris Murphy

If it's up to me, our party's message is unrigging the democracy, unrigging the economy,

kind of period stop, right?

And if you're like signed up for those two projects, and we gotta fill out what that means to unrig the democracy, it probably means that we're running on a constitutional amendment to get dark money and billionaire money and anonymous money completely out of politics, but like people are up for that.

And I guess I'll end here because you are right that people are feeling super discouraged and super powerless right now.

And so we as a party have to sort of start our analysis of what this moment needs through a diagnosis of the way that people are feeling.

And people are feeling like they have no agency, like they have no control.

So both our economic and political messaging has to be about returning control to human beings and explaining to them, as we've talked about a few times,

that it goes both ways.

The corruption of our economy is downstream of the corruption of our democracy, but also, and I'll try to say this the right way to end, the corruption of our democracy is also downstream of the corruption of our economy in this way.

When our economy is an economy that only cares about profit and efficiency, it's a virtuous economy.

It's an economy where morality doesn't matter, where the health of workers or the health of communities is just irrelevant to economic decision-making.

It becomes this just winner-take-all economy in which the folks who do well just –

Grab it all.

And we've normalized that because we've normalized the idea that sort of shared prosperity is not a value any longer in our economy.

Okay, when that becomes normalized inside our economy, it becomes normalized inside our politics too.

Our politics becomes winner-take-all politics.

So if a CEO is justified in making a thousand times more than the average worker and using his power as CEO to abuse workers in order to enrich himself, and that's okay,

then why is it wrong for a president of the United States to use his power to abuse the people under his authority and enrich himself maximally in the same way that a CEO would?

So when we normalize zero virtue in our economy,

It's really easy to say, well, maybe virtue shouldn't matter in our politics either.