{"id":1388583,"date":"2022-03-18T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388583"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:15:10","slug":"retiring-dem-rep-decries-partys-radical-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retiring-dem-rep-decries-partys-radical-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring Dem Rep Decries Party\u2019s Radical Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fretiring-dem-rep-decries-partys-radical-turn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388583&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>In an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/18\/stephanie-murphy-democrats-congress-house-00018272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> Friday by <em>Politico<\/em>, retiring Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D., Fla.) decried the Democratic Party&#8217;s radical turn on issues ranging from immigration to infrastructure to capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy is among a dwindling group of Democratic lawmakers concerned about her party&#8217;s inability to stand up to left-wing groups. She accused her party&#8217;s leadership of pandering to factions who are soft on crime and want to &#8220;dismantle capitalism&#8221; and pursue open borders. During her six years in Congress, she said &#8220;immigrant groups&#8221; have often maligned her, a Vietnamese refugee, as &#8220;anti-immigrant&#8221; for pursuing immigration reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe in immigration and comprehensive immigration reform and the ability for people to immigrate to the United States in a legal way,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;But I also believe in law and order and ensuring that we hold people who commit crimes accountable. \u2026 I&#8217;m a refugee. I&#8217;m an immigrant. I&#8217;m not anti-immigrant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy blames her party&#8217;s leaders for the shift, saying they have cowed interest groups into their game of political brinkmanship. During last year&#8217;s infrastructure discussions, she said, Democratic leadership drove the political action of labor unions more than union members did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The infrastructure bill was one of the most historic job-creating bills for labor,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;And instead of [being] focused on the bill that would create jobs today for their members, they were focused on carrying out the Democratic leadership&#8217;s approach to the two bills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shift, Murphy said, has caused some groups to even give up reading bills, choosing instead to advocate whatever Democratic leadership tells them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had environmental groups that were calling us before the legislation text for the Build Back Better Act had been put out, calling us saying, \u2018If you don&#8217;t support that, we are going to delist you. We won&#8217;t support you. We won&#8217;t endorse you,'&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;And when you ask them back, \u2018Well, what&#8217;s in the Build Back Better Act that you are so supportive of,&#8217; they couldn&#8217;t define it specifically because nobody had seen the text.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy announced in December she would not seek reelection. In her interview, she issued a parting shot against Democrats who have pressed for unpopular policies despite their narrow advantage in the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t tell you the number of times I said, \u2018You can&#8217;t keep promising rainbows and unicorns when your political reality is such narrow margins in the House and a dead-even Senate,'&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;They took the difference between rainbows and unicorns and political reality\u2014which is anger and disappointment\u2014and turned that anger and disappointment against their own members.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview published Friday by Politico, retiring Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D., Fla.) decried the Democratic Party&#8217;s radical turn on issues ranging from immigration to infrastructure to capitalism. 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