U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) broke the record for the longest filibuster on the Senate Floor. His goal, according to political analyst Ed Kilgore, was to “dramatize the scope and intensity of the threat that Trump, Elon Musk, and other presidential stooges pose to government as we know it and to democracy itself.”
If that was the goal, the media conversation would have been about the content of the speech, not on the filibuster record.
But the focus of the headlines and reporting wasn’t about the policies that Booker advocated for or the solutions he proposed. It was about the record-breaking speech, which overshadowed its purpose. For leaders of all kinds, it’s a cautionary tale: Are your actions driving meaningful change, or are they just grabbing attention?
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