‘We Are Cooked’: Senate Democrat Agrees With Jesse Watters’s Assessment of How Right-Wing Media Is Schooling the Left

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) agreed with Fox News host Jesse Watters’s take on the current state of play between the Democratic and Republican Parties’ respective media strategies, arguing on Thursday that if the Democrats don’t find a way to adapt, “We are cooked.”

On Monday’s episode of top-rated show The Five, Watters told his fellow panelists, “We are waging a 21st-century information warfare campaign against the left and they are using tactics from the 1990s.”

“They are holding tiny press conferences, tiny little rallies. They’re screaming into the ether on MSNBC. This is what you call top-down command and control. You get your talking points from a newspaper and you put it on the broadcast network and then it disappears,” Watters said, offering his assessment of the Democrats’ failed media approach.

“What you’re seeing on the right is asymmetrical. It’s like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it. And by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it. It’s free money. And we’re actually talking about expressing information. They are suppressing information,” Watters concluded.

The clip was shared on X and quickly went viral with various pundits and observers commenting. Murphy replied, “This is true. And until the left builds an infrastructure to confront this reality – and stops acting like political communication is still just buying millions of TV and digital ads every two years – we are cooked.”

Murphy has emerged as one of the more prominent voices urging his party to shift tactics since President Donald Trump’s reelection. He has also become a regular presence on X, offering quick takes on the news of the day and fighting in the culture wars.

In December, The Hill published a report titled, “Murphy draws attention with calls for Democratic shift in strategy.” The article noted, “Murphy has been among the most prominent figures arguing for a new strategy to expand the party’s tent and for leaders to embrace economic populism to reconnect with voters whom the party has lost.”