“When the media decides to start hedging, or not telling the full story, combined with people being reluctant to engage in political opposition because they fear they will land in jail, that’s just not a democracy any longer. And it’s not like we’re six months away from that. It feels like we might be a month away from a world in which people start to retreat from politics for fear of criminal prosecution, and the media just uses kid gloves in dealing with the regime.
I don’t think this is hypothetical two years from now; we may be living in a very restricted democratic space in January.”— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), speaking to Greg Sargent on The Daily Blast.