DAVID MARCUS: How Chuck Schumer finally reaped the whirlwind

In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer unleashed a menace against the Supreme Court’s blimpish justices successful the aftermath of their determination to overturn Roe vs Wade’s nationalist extortion for abortion. "You person released the whirlwind and you volition wage the price," helium bellowed. "You won't cognize what deed you if you spell guardant with these atrocious decisions."

Although Schumer's bellicose words whitethorn person contributed to an effort connected Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s beingness backmost then, 5 years aboriginal it is not the men and women successful robes suffering a whirlwind, but alternatively Schumer himself, and it is 1 of his ain making.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. speaks during a quality conference. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

This week, Schumer is facing calls to measurement down from his enactment presumption from aggregate House Democrats including Squad subordinate Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and neo-centrist Rep. Ro Khana, D-Calif., aft his shambolic show during the authorities shutdown.

It is apt lone a substance of clip earlier specified calls for Schumer’s ouster echo successful the precocious enclosure arsenic well.

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In the end, Christ had an easier 40 days successful the godforsaken than Schumer had during this shutdown, wherever helium went from swearing not conscionable that Democrats would ne'er backmost down, but that they were winning the combat politically, to watching Democrats capitulate with thing successful return.

As erstwhile Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pointed out, this was the ‘Seinfeld shutdown," a shutdown astir nothing, and Schumer was decidedly George.

Tellingly, Chuck himself did not motion connected to the woody to unfastened the government, commencement paying retired SNAP benefits, and unchoke our airports, which lone makes him look weaker, due to the fact that helium can’t power his caucus.

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Schumer is present facing the archetypal existent situation of his 5 decades successful politics, and it doesn’t look similar helium knows what deed him.

The scuttlebut successful Washington, D.C., and the Empire State is that, by hook oregon by crook, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez volition instrumentality Schumer’s Senate spot successful 2028 conscionable similar she took Rep. Joe Crowley’s House spot 7 years ago.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks with reporters extracurricular the U.S. Capitol astir members information aft the execution of Charlie Kirk connected Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC is not being peculiarly shy astir it, saying this week, "We person respective Senate primaries this cycle. I cognize I'm being asked astir New York, [but] that is years from now. I person to punctual my ain constituents due to the fact that they deliberation that this predetermination is this year."

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This is simply a agelong mode from, "Chuck is doing a large occupation and I person nary plans to tally against him."

In the caller mayor’s contention successful New York City, successful which AOC was politician socialist Zohran Mamdani’s astir important surrogate, Schumer bravely declined, adjacent connected Election Day itself, to disclose whether helium had formed a ballot for Zany Zohran.

It was really rather amazing: Schumer is the highest-ranking elected Democrat successful the United States of America and helium decided not to measurement successful connected whether his enactment should clasp communism.

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Schumer couldn’t cull Mamdani due to the fact that helium and his ilk are evidently the aboriginal of the party, but helium couldn’t clasp him due to the fact that his pro-capitalism and pro-Israel donors won’t person it.

Schumer wasn’t sitting connected the obstruction successful the mayor’s race, helium was impaled connected it.

Right now, whether reasonably oregon not, Schumer is the avatar for the aged constitution Democrat Party that shuffled disconnected the signifier with erstwhile President Joe Biden. He is the governmental mentation of the Washington Generals, being dunked connected implicit and implicit by the much talented socialist Globetrotters.

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In fact, this whirlwind that Schumer has reaped is wholly his ain fault. At immoderate constituent helium could person shown courage, acted similar an adult, and tried to enactment successful bully religion with Republicans and the Trump administration. Instead, helium decided to curse connected TikTok similar the extremist kids who privation his job.

Democrat Senators Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. (Getty Images/Reuters)

It was Schumer who helped to oust erstwhile Democrat senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin for opposing the party’s propulsion to nuke the filibuster successful 2021. Where did helium deliberation his enactment was going to travel from erstwhile helium tossed retired the moderates?

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In the end, Schumer's vocation volition beryllium a cautionary tale, lacking the courageousness to rein successful the extremist elements successful his caucus and party, helium alternatively opened the doorway for them and hastened his ain exile from power.

Chuck Schumer has good and genuinely reaped the whirlwind, and successful precise abbreviated bid helium volition astir apt beryllium paying the price.