The bad news is that the leader of the Democratic Senate Senate is not ready for re -election until 2028. Good news is that it can resign now and should do it two.
Senate Minority leader Chuck Shumer used to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which presses on it – a surprise, given that he is an avatar for Centralism Pro -Wall Street. But after his catastrophic appeal to the budget crisis, which ended when the Senate Democrats throw out a small lever they have to agree with the budget, the conditions of which were only among the Republicans, Shumer believes that even its allies in the party include it. Sumer’s urges to leave the post of minority leader in the Senate in conjunction with a whisper of the Congress Democrats to encourage Alexandria Okosio Cartes to make it when it came to re-election in 2028, has a direct and long-term reason.
The immediate reason is the budget fiasco, which ended with Republicans, openly impoverished that they got everything they wanted. Reporter NBC Sakhil Capor enthusiastic GOP triumphant mood:
Two Republican senators told me that tonight, this vote shows that they could again fulfill the same strategy – speaking with the Democrats from the talks on the government’s financing bill, pass it through the house and expect that Dem Senate will retreat, not filibus.
“We liked it here,” one said.
A deeper problem with the Sumer, which explains why many in his party turn into it, is that he does not understand the budget struggle as a victory not only for Trump, but also for the Republicans of Congress. Shumer, 74, has a thinking similar to former President Joe Biden. Both real believers in the cult of two -party cooperation are the misconception that Donald Trump is an aberum whose extremist policy disappears and allow Republicans and Democrats to work together again. In 2019 Biden predict After Trump was defeated in Congress, Republicans will receive “Epiphony” and return to political moderation. Truth be told, GoP only continued to radicalize after Trump’s loss, and Trump won the party nomination again in 2024 and enjoyed the full domination of Republicans in Congress.
Chuck Sumer is still waiting for the promised epiphan Biden. In an interview with The New York Times Sunday Shumer interpret What his strategy was to wait for the Trump’s approval rating to be less than 40 percent, which will create a new political environment where the Republican Senate will include Trump:
We will keep it until it drops below 40. Look, I talk to many of these Republican legislators. I worked with them. Some of them are devoted to Trump. But many of them do not like him, do not respect him or do not worry what he is doing with our country. Now it is so popular that it cannot resist it. I mean, so many of them came to me and said, “I don’t think the Jigset should be a defense minister, or RFK should be HHS, but Trump wants it. He won.” Republicans would like to have any freedom from Trump, but they will not be until we are popular. It happened with Bush in 2005. It happened with Trump in 2017. If this happens, I hope our republican colleagues will resume with us. And I talk to them. One place is in the gym. When you are on this bicycle in the shorts, gasping for the Republican, many bans break away.
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The fact that Shumer does not understand is that the sweaty conversations in the gym he conducted with the republican senators reflects only the usual bonchom of old colleagues, not the political realities of modern America. In a polarized society, where Trump’s right allies from Rupert Merdak to Elon Musk to Jeff Bezo-Low-lying the ability to form stories about the media, the promises of GOP senators have nothing. Even if these senators are sincere in the desire to accomplish Trump, they live in deadly fear that Musk or other reaction billionaire will fund the main problem. It is worth noting that after Donald Trump told the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, only seven Republicans were ready to find him guilty of impeachment. 43 GOP senators found Trump not guilty, led to his acquittal. If the vast majority of GOP Senators did not break up with Trump after January 6, why would we expect EPHANY NOW?
Shumer shells do not stop at the fantasy of the wonderful change of heart among the republican senators. Shumer is equally hallucinator about the electorate. Presenting a safe democratic state and protected by the deep rollers of Wall -Strit money, Shumer should not interact with real voters. Instead, he invented a fictional couple, which acts as his leadership. He called his imaginary friends “O’Reillys”, but decided that the nickname was too ethnic (apparently the Sumer has a 19th-century conviction that the Irish is not white). Now he calls them “Baylis”.
A 2007 New Yarker Sumer profile describes his rich figurative interactionS with your own friends:
Shumer says he is accompanied where he goes two imaginary middle -class friends, who advise him all kinds of middle -class problems. Until recently, Joe and Eileen O’Reili were their names. “For the sake of the book, we wanted them to be more national,” Sumer said, “so they became Bailey. “Baileys live in Masapek, Nasau District, a city that is invariably known on Long Island as” Mato Picin “. Both Baylis forty-five: Joe works in an insurance company, Eileen-Naval Day in the doctor’s office.
In 17 years since this profile has been published, Shumer continues to talk to Baileys. He mentioned them in his New York Times Interviews discussing how they are concerned about the crime.
The current anger in Shumer goes through ideological lines in the Democratic Party. Main leaders such as Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosiand James Clibourne Everyone showed that Shumer coped with the budget talks.
Currently, the situation is so terrible that the transition to push the representative of the Alexandria Okosio Cartes to the primary, as well as the centrist, and progressive support. Like cnn reports:
According to the deputy of the Democratic MP, who was directly talking to Ocasio-Cortez that some began to urge her to retreat Kaakes so much that some of them were so angry that some began to call her to participate in the retreat in the political actions of Shumer. This member said several Democrats in a progressed cape and others directly encouraged Okasio Cortez to work on Thursday after Shumer announced, the member said.
The participant said that the Democrats in Lysburg were “so distraught” that even the central Democrats were “ready to write checks on AOC for the Senate”, adding that they “never saw people with such crazy.”
The bad news is that Shumer is not ready for re -election until 2028. Good news is that it can resign now – it really has to do it twice. He can resign as a minority leader in the Senate. Among the possible replacements, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has many points in its favor. He is a long -standing center that, unlike Shumer, adapted to a new reality and understands that contism requires a much tougher opposition. This ideological evolution will lead to his friends among different party factions. Many of the colleagues of Murphy are experiencing the same rethinking policy, following the path that Bernie Sanders, who will definitely be an improvement in Sumer, but shows little interest in his desire (and may not be welcomed that he is not a democrat).
Sumer’s colleagues should also encourage him to leave the Senate. The one argument they can do is that the pensus retirement will be much longer to transfer their chat from Baileys.
The hard and chaotic second term Donald Trump is just beginning. In the first month, Trump’s office and his Like -Elon Musk (or this is the opposite?) Proved that nothing is safe from sacrifice at the altar without checking strength and wealth.
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