After a decade as Capitol Hill’s conscience on gun reform, the Connecticut senator now hopes to “diagnose and treat the metaphysical state” of the nation. It may “be beyond my capacities,” Murphy admits, but he’s going to try.
It was a cool day in early August. Murphy—wearing striped socks, dark jeans, and a slate sport coat—seemed slightly uncomfortable with the comparison. He looked up to Kennedy. But he was not surveying shotgun shacks in Mississippi; he was sitting in an unassuming community center conference room on the outskirts of Boone, North Carolina, a college town about 100 miles northwest of Charlotte and a short drive from the Tennessee border.
Ts? Minorities?” “I knew what I was doing,” Murphy told me of the post in question, which he had published while at the beach with his family: He was testing the waters, trying to get a sense of what direction the currents were headed.
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