Democratic Sen. Cory Booker may have broken the record for the longest speech in Senate history on Tuesday, but it didn’t accomplish anything practical. Nevertheless, he joined The Rachel Maddow Show to take a victory lap while Maddow essentially worshipped the ground he walked on as she declared he “captured the moral imagination of this nation.”
Maddow gushed, “I don’t know if you are conscious of how much this caught the attention and caught the imagination of the American people. I know that you’re not using electronic devices on the Senate floor. You’re not watching your TikTok numbers and your YouTube numbers and the C-SPAN contemporaneous viewing numbers while you’re there, because you can’t be. But every time that I checked any form of media by which you could be live monitored, there were no less than tens of thousands of people watching in…
