America, Its Not Always About You

Chris Murphy, Americentrism, and Another Reason why Twitter is Bad for Democracy

The other day Chris Murphy, a Democratic Senator from Connecticut sent out a tweet. It was your fairly standard hot take in the age of Trump, a simplification of very complicated range of policy that was presented in a way that turns it into digestible for people who get their news in Vine segments. Now the baseline of what Senator Murphy was trying to get across (The United States doesn’t like to clean up its messes, and the travel ban is…