The Senator, the Governor, and the World’s Socialists: America’s Left Finds Its True Home
This past weekend, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz traveled to Barcelona, Spain, where they took the stage alongside four sitting heads of state — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum — at an event its organizers titled, without evident irony, the “Global Progressive Mobilisation forum in defense of democracy.”