It’s 3:30 In The Morning And Chris Murphy Is Screeching About Elon Musk, Death Of Democracy

At 3:30 a.m. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy warned from the Senate floor that America’s democracy is on the brink of collapse.

The Senate Democrat ranted about Elon Musk taking a wrecking ball to the administrative state and openly mused that President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks were going to hasten the death of America’s democracy. Though Trump has been in the Oval Office for less than three weeks, his administration is racing ahead to slash the federal bureaucracy by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development and offering incentives to the federal workforce to voluntarily resign, among dozens of other initiatives.

Murphy’s three hour overnight screed was just one speech during a 30-hour long stretch in which Senate Democrats are continuously speaking on the Senate floor in order to delay Trump’s cabinet nominees from securing confirmation. The target of Murphy and other Senate Democrats’ ire is White House Office and Management and Budget Director-designate Russell Vought, who they view as a unique threat largely due to his prior history of effectively working to dismantle the administrative state bureaucracy during the first Trump administration.

“Darkness has descended” on America with Vought’s imminent confirmation, Murphy warned without evidence.

“You can say that Democrats are crying wolf,” Murphy said on the Senate floor between the hours of 2 and 5 a.m. “Of course, America is always going to be a democracy. Every democracy dies. It does. Every democracy has an expiration date. Just like every civilization has an expiration date, there is an end, and there are a series of events that lead to that end.”