Senator Schumer Reaps His Own Whirlwind

The Democratic Party is suffering what 16th-century Catholic poet St. John of the Cross described as a “long dark night of the soul.” Rather than rallying together to oppose President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda, high-profile lawmakers have devolved into backbiting and ideological division. It’s a situation that has become all too apparent to the electorate and is writ large in the desultory polling numbers.

As Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has quite the claim to being his party’s leading voice.

And yet, after choosing to support a Trump-backed continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government lights on last week, prominent colleagues have determined that his years of service are more an embarrassment than a blueprint.

Speaking with CNN, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) lambasted Schumer, saying that his support of the CR was a “tremendous mistake” and that it “turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.” She was then asked whether she would consider running against the minority leader in the 2028 election. She did not say “no.”

AOC sidestepped the question and gave no definite answer, which, in politics, is a pretty clear “maybe.” But then her surrogates and supporters took up the cause in her place.

New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, an initial supporter of Schumer, said that he “has been in politics for a long time, and I would hope that this is his final term, and he opens it up for someone new,” adding that if AOC ran for the US Senate seat, “she would make a fantastic senator.”

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