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The Hill reports – “Murphy tells US, world progressives to take ‘lessons’ from Hungary elections” – “Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Saturday urged progressives in the U.S. and around the world to ‘learn from each other’, saying the defeat of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Hungary can offer a roadmap for rebuilding democracy… Murphy told the crowd at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona that the U.S. faced “the most significant threat” to democratic institutions since the Civil War, and Americans were “watching the courage of the defenders of democracy” in Hungary and other parts of Europe… The Connecticut Democrat, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, painted the picture of an America ‘in crisis,’ likening President Trump’s actions to a ‘totalitarian takeover.’”

Possibly some Democrats in Connecticut regard Murphy’s remarks as foaming at the mouth rhetorical campaign rhetoric. The Hill report continues: Trump, Murphy said, “’is trying to seize control of our courts, of our law enforcement, of our media, of our elections. His goal is oligarchic capture,’ Murphy said, describing the current White House as ‘the most corrupt’ in the nation’s history... “He called on progressives to unite to counter right-wing populism across the globe, pointing to [the] AfD party in Germany, [the] far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen in France, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Orbán and Trump” – quite a mouthful, but not at all surprising coming from Connecticut’s version of New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Both socialism and neo-progressivism are on the march, and historically, both have marched to the same ideological drummer. The Soviet Union before its breakup was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Hungary, both before and after the first suppressed Hungarian Revolution, was a part of the forced socialist collective. It may help Connecticut voters to recall that Nutmeggers used to wrinkle their noses at the mention of socialist communism.

Murphy, The Hill reported, “also pushed for corporate power to be broken up and to ‘confront the cult of corruption’ worldwide, which he argued is harming working-class people. ‘This cult of corruption exists [not only] in America, but in every other corner of this world,’ he said. ‘This is the lesson from Hungary. The Hungarians refused to bend to the cult of corruption. They demanded a higher standard from their public sector leaders,’ he added.”

The Baltic States and Poland have in the past heroically sought to break free of the Soviet Socialist “Republic”. Some Hungarians in the audience attentive to Murphy’s remarks no doubt will recall the forced servitude of Hungary under the Soviet hegemon.

What lessons should Nutmeggers draw from Murphy’s remarks at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona, Spain?

Speaking before three thousand hopeful neo-progressives in Spain, Murphy donned his frequently inflamed anti-President Trump face. It was an event of searing declamations among left wing fellow travelers.

In its coverage of the conference, the Associated Press (AP) noted, “Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, an outspoken critic of U.S. President Donald Trump and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, hosted two overlapping events about democracy and progressive politics in Spain’s second-largest city.”

Prime Minister of Spain since 2018, Sanchez, also served as Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) since 2017, previously having held that office from 2014 to 2016. He is the ninth president of the Socialist International since 2022.

On March 30, the AP reported, “Spain closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, officials said Monday, in another step by Europe’s loudest critic of U.S. and Israeli military actions in the month-long conflict. The country earlier said that the U.S. couldn’t use jointly operated military bases in the war, which Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has described as illegal, reckless and unjust. Defense Minister Margarita Robles said that the same logic applied to the use of Spanish airspace.”

Murphy no doubt ingratiated himself with his fellow socialists by his fervent remarks concerning Spain’s government. He was joined in his denunciations by the fraud-soaked Democrat governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, a speaker at the conference who recently ran for Vice President of the United States on a ticket featuring Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate substitute for President Joe Biden. Former President Biden was knocked out of the presidential ring by an assortment of prestigious Democrat leaders, including, some suspect, former President Barrack Obama and former Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi. Not physically present in Spain during the conference, socialist Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani was content offering Zoomed remarks.

The associated Press reported: “Sen. Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, spoke at the progressive rally and he didn’t shy away from blasting Trump while celebrating the loss of power of Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán in elections in Hungary last week.

“Donald Trump is out to end our democracy,” Murphy said. “We are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover, we are in the middle of it.”

Many observers of the American scene heartily doubt that the time remaining in the Trump presidency will allow Trump-the-totalitarian to snuff out Democracy in America, a book written by Alexis de Tocqueville too little read among neo-progressive socialists on both sides of the Euro-American pond.

Republican government in the United States, Tocqueville reminds us, will survive until Congress discovers a way to bribe the public with the public’s money. The allure of power and influence, he warns, can corrupt the democratic process. Nor was Tocqueville a stranger to socialism. Both democracy and socialism are grounded in equality, but the two differ from each other none-the-less he maintained. Democracy seeks equality in liberty, while socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Might it not be a good idea to require, before voting for men and women in the US Congress, some firm assurance that they understand the difference between servitude and liberty?

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