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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s present role \u2013 serving as the Lee to Graham Platner\u2019s Grant at the conclusion of the Democratic Party\u2019s civil war \u2013 is a sad, but richly deserved fate.<\/p>\n
And make no mistake, by endorsing Platner\u2019s campaign for the Senate, Schumer has indeed surrendered his longtime political vessel to the socialist third-worldists who have spent the last decade staging a slow-rolling, yet largely uncontested takeover of it. Schumer had recruited Janet Mills, the relatively popular governor of Maine, to run against incumbent Republican Susan Collins. \u201cWe think that Janet Mills is the best candidate to retire Susan Collins,\u201d declared Schumer at a press conference last fall.<\/p>\n
Nobody cared. By February, Platner had left Mills in his polling dust by a nearly 40-point margin. And while Schumer remained insistent that the more moderate Mills would prevail, he proved reluctant to close the financial gap between their campaigns.<\/p>\n
Mills suspended her campaign on Thursday. Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand wasted no time in throwing their weight behind Platner, who urged Americans last November to call their senators, \u201cand tell them that Chuck Schumer can no longer be leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocrats are dedicated to fighting back against the chaos of the Trump administration by defeating the Republicans who enable his harmful agenda and that includes Susan Collins,\u201d declared the New York lawmakers in a joint statement. \u201cSenator Collins has never been more vulnerable and we will work with the presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner to defeat her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur North Star is winning a Democratic Senate majority,\u201d they explained.<\/p>\n
Regardless of who that majority is composed of, evidently.<\/p>\n
Until a few months ago, Platner roamed the Pine Tree State with an SS Totenkopf stamped across his chest. In February, he retweeted Holocaust math enthusiast and \u201cJewish lobby\u201d obsessive Stew Peters. Platner pleaded ignorance in both cases.<\/p>\n
That explanation went from implausible to insulting after it was revealed that a month earlier, he had told another<\/i> antisemitic conspiracy theorist (this one has blamed Israel for the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Charlie Kirk) that he was a \u201clongtime fan.\u201d Take it from he without \u201cany patriotism\u201d in his heart for the United States, 9\/11 cheerleader Hasan Piker: \u201cHe [Platner] was pro-Hamas, okay? He was giving Hamas credit in 2014. Okay, what more do you f*cking want?\u201d<\/p>\n
Democratic primary voters no longer make any bones about what it is they want: revanchist, pugilistic anti-Westernism in its angriest, most resentful form \u2013 the kind that blinds its adherents so completely as to delude them into identifying America and its greatest ally as the loci of evil in the world.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re willing to make any and every unsavory compromise necessary to get it. It\u2019s public knowledge that when Platner isn\u2019t nodding along to lunatic grifters\u2019 latest thoughts about the Jews, he\u2019s taking to Reddit to advise women worried about sexual assault to \u201ctake some responsibility for themselves and not get so f*cked up they wind up having sex with someone they don\u2019t mean to?\u201d<\/p>\n
The former is just more than enough to make up for the latter.<\/p>\n
Schumer himself stands to be a victim of his party\u2019s leftward drift, then backward. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who opposes any military aid \u2013 including for defensive systems like Iron Dome \u2013 to Israel, would be an overwhelming favorite against Schumer in the Empire State should she choose to challenge him rather than mount a presidential campaign in 2028. One survey from last spring suggested that the far-Left congresswoman would begin a primary battle between them with a 21-point lead.<\/p>\n
Schumer had better hope she has her heart set on the White House, because liberal New Yorkers have their hearts set on the woman who has accused her own country of enabling genocide for standing by the Israelis after the events of October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
It would be quite the way to go out for a self-styled shomer <\/i>or \u201cguardian\u201d of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n
Of course, Schumer himself bears plenty of blame for his plight. For years he watched as his peers radicalized. And instead of yelling, \u201cStop!\u201d, he moved with them. Of course immigration enforcement is unjust; of course a border wall is racist; of course Maduro and Khamenei are Donald Trump\u2019s victims; of course the Supreme Court is corrupt if it rules against Democrats\u2019 interests \u2013 and what is a woman, anyway? The leftist appetite is such that there is no final destination, no righteous endpoint or irrefutable truths to be preserved. There is only capital-P Progress, an ever-shifting goalpost propelled by ego and self-righteousness, not principle or actual righteousness.<\/p>\n
Schumer not only allowed such lies to take root, but he also parrotted them out of self-interest and ostracized those with the courage to be voices of reason. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a liberal who has been villainized by the far-Left over his support for Israel and 2000s-Democrat era views on border security, burst out laughing on Wednesday after being asked about his relationship with other members of his caucus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not necessarily the popular guy,\u201d he conceded.<\/p>\n
All this time, it never occurred to Schumer that he was feeding a monster sure to swallow him eventually. Perhaps his humiliation in Maine has, at long last, clued him in.<\/p>\n
Now, he has no choice but to wave the white flag and profess to welcome his new, bat-guano crazy overlords.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Graham Platner\u2019s party; and despite his efforts at appeasement, Chuck Schumer isn\u2019t even on the guest list.<\/p>\n
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Isaac Schorr is a staff writer at Mediaite and a 2023\u20132024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n