Tag: Strom Thurmond
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Booker’s Record-breaking Speech Proves Democrats Are Stuck In The Past
Kurt L. Davis Jr. April 5, 2025
In our era of lightning-fast news cycles, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has claimed a peculiar distinction: surpassing South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s notorious 24-hour civil rights filibuster to deliver the longest speech in Senate history. This feat, while impressive in its physical endurance, inadvertently illustrates the fundamental disconnect between Democratic messaging strategy and today’s media reality…

