Their leadership...................
Posted on 04/24/2025 6:31:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
The party is broken – and once-integral cogs in the machine are slated for replacement.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has now perhaps become the most high-profile victim of the Democratic Party’s civil war – with less emphasis on the “civil.” A new breed of zealous progressives has been extending its influence over the party for at least the last decade, and President Donald Trump’s 2024 victory may have been the last straw for this radical faction. Schumer suddenly finds himself widely unpopular, and that may well bring an end to his leadership role and maybe even his political career.
The five-term senator has been trying to keep up with his party’s leftward drift. He has made a few less-than-convincing efforts to play the rabble-rouser at staged public protests against the Trump agenda – both recently and during Trump’s first White House term. But he is neither young nor cool, and that seems to be what Democrats are aiming for these days. Gov. Tim Walz also tried to pull off that act on the campaign trail as Kamala Harris’ running mate. Clearly, few were buying it, with predictable results.
Beginning of the End
The fall of Chuck Schumer began in March when he backed a continuing resolution that congressional Republicans negotiated with President Trump to avoid a government shutdown. After the vote, Trump took a victory lap and even praised Schumer for his last-minute support.
For Democrats – and especially for the rising progressive disruptors – no cooperation with Trump is acceptable. Although it seemed clear that, this time around, Democrats wouldn’t be able to pass the blame for a shutdown, Schumer’s decision was seen as something of a betrayal. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has announced her intention to challenge Schumer in 2028, and as things stand, she is in a strong position to deal Senate Democrats’ top dog a primary defeat. A late-March Data for Progress survey of more than 31,700 likely New York Democratic primary voters put AOC at 55% and Schumer at just 36%.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a progressive congressman from California, told CNN’s Dana Bash during a March appearance on the network that several House Democrats encouraged Ocasio-Cortez to challenge Schumer in the next general election. “When a company isn’t doing well you don’t keep the same team,” Khanna observed, without saying whether he was one of the Democrats he claims are backing AOC.
Schumer Touts His Judges The growing rift within the Democratic Party – and the threat to the old guard – is not lost on senior elected officials, including Schumer. Perhaps attempting to maintain his standing, the senator from New York is touting the avalanche of legal obstructions to the Trump agenda.
Since Inauguration Day, almost every action taken by the Trump administration has met a legal challenge, and almost every one lands on the desk of a judge appointed by either Barack Obama or Joe Biden. With a few exceptions, these judges have issued some form of injunction to stop or delay the administration’s moves. It’s judicial activism on steroids, and Schumer is taking the credit. Appearing on PBS recently, the senator said the quiet part out loud – to borrow a now-popular turn of phrase. He admitted that the furious pace of appointing federal judges while he, Schumer, led the Senate during the Biden administration was driven by the Democrats’ desire to block Trump at every turn.
“We did put 235 judges, progressive judges, judges not under the control of Trump, last year on the bench, and they are ruling against Trump time after time after time,” Schumer told PBS News Hour’s Geoff Bennett.
Still, Schumer’s part in attempting to hijack the district and appellate court system to thwart the current president may not be enough to save him. A new Siena College survey gives Schumer a 39% favorability rating against an unfavorable rating of 49%. It is the first time this poll has shown a net unfavorable score for Schumer – and 10 points underwater isn’t merely a bad week.
It seems all signs are pointing to a new dawn for the Democratic Party – but the old establishment will not be making it to breakfast. Schumer’s number two in the Senate, Dick Durbin (D-IL), announced on April 23 that he would not seek re-election after serving in the upper chamber for 30 years. His final term will end in January 2027, so he won’t be around when (or if) Schumer launches a re-election bid. It seems that Joe Biden and Donald Trump – between them but in very different ways – finally broke the old Democratic Party. No one is too sure what it will look like when the pieces are put back together.
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Hoggette won’t be around much longer. He peed in his own Cheerios......................
Like Chuckie said, “Six ways to Sunday....”
“He has AOC breathing down his back and she wants to move up”
I’m not following AOC because I’ve assumed she’s an outlier.
What are her positions on issues that are attracting attention?
She takes populist socialist positions like Bernie.
Maybe when Chuckie Tumor loses his next election he and Biden can be room mates in a nice Memory Care Facility.
Get rid of the Governor....She has done more damage than any governor in the country.
He’s no dummy. He knows the ins and outs of Congress. She’s a big “Know nothing”.
She’s going to run for POTUS.
But who wants a POTUS whose name sounds like a sneeze?...............
What if someone like Elise Stefanik chose to run on the Republican side? The race would come down to a Bronx Democrat radical against an upstate MAGA conservative. Given how close the Governor's race was with Lee Zeldin, might greater New Yorkers have had enough of the extreme left agenda by 2028 and choose Stefanik over Ocasio-Cortez?
-PJ
The PURGE is underway... the demonKKKrats will get a LOT worse with the influx of “new leftist scum”. Watch for it.
I don’t think the Zeldin race was that close at 6.4% but certainly closer that one would expect in NYS. That being said, even given a dead NYS GOP organization, it is possible for Elise to beat AOC statewide, but everything would have to line up to overcome the severe disorganization of the state GOP party.
When Pataki ran the state party was in much better shape.
Describing the DNC as broken is like describing weeks-old roadkill as “a bit overripe”. They went corrupt long ago and the stinking bits are just now evident to an otherwise uninterested viewer.
Too dumb to be Prez? Remember Joe Biden?
He can always flip cheeseburgers....oh, wait.
Chuck (Raw Beef) Schumer has been a grifting scumbag, and a liar, his entire stint in U.S. politics.
He can’t be gone soon enough.
I only wish someone would investigate his underhanded methods. I’m sure there’s a list of felonies there.
As bad as he is, he is going to be replaced by a communist. The democrats are now communist lite and they are trying to remove the lite part.
The younger new blood want full communism and they want it now...
If I'm in New York, I'll probably vote for Schumer over AOC.
The new Democrats are basically Bolsheviks.
Hundreds of thousands New Yorkers moved to Florida, many of them Republican.
As a result, it made New York bluer.
Their leadership...................
Never underestimate the stupidity of New York or Chicago voters...
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