Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several planned events this week to promote his new book after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests.
A bad political calculus, to say the least. Schumer has alienated himself from the core of his party and constituency, although he may not have expected such a strong response it is hard to see what he hoped to gain by joining Fetterman, Gillibrand, and other politicians that serve as internal stumbling blocks in terms of party solidarity and cohesion in the current environment, where democrats’ only positions of power require then to act unanimously.
A bad political calculus, to say the least. Schumer has alienated himself from the core of his party and constituency, although he may not have expected such a strong response it is hard to see what he hoped to gain by joining Fetterman, Gillibrand, and other politicians that serve as internal stumbling blocks in terms of party solidarity and cohesion in the current environment, where democrats’ only positions of power require then to act unanimously.
I feel that’s rapidly become a neoliberal democrat feeling. Not that they’ll ever learn from it.