DAVID MARCUS: Why Schumer's do-nothing approach makes perfect sense for Democrats

It’s been a pugnacious week for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who is facing a revolt from his party’s faithful arsenic a effect of his determination to vote, on with 9 different Democrats, to walk past week’s continuing solution and support the authorities open. 

The fallout was arsenic contiguous arsenic it was furious, with calls erupting for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., darling of the far-left to superior Schumer successful his adjacent reelection bid, and aggravated recriminations of surrender filling Washington DC.

As acold arsenic a superior goes, Schumer won’t amusement up connected the ballot for different 3 years, which is the existent chronology of American authorities mightiness arsenic good beryllium 3 decades, truthful let’s not get up of ourselves.

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But what if, adjacent though Democrats are loath to admit it, Schumer’s do-nothing attack to Trump’s 2nd and wildly much assertive medication not lone makes sense, but is the astir effectual mode to combat Trump, astatine slightest successful the abbreviated term.

In the archetypal frenetic 35 days of Trump’s presidency, this clip around, it was the Democrats who conscionable couldn’t beryllium mean successful their response, culminating successful the circus show of walkouts, matching outfits and refusal to cheer for a puerility crab subsister astatine the commander-in-chief's associated code to Congress.

Over the past 2 weeks, however, it is Trump who is veering, if not into abnormality, astatine slightest into unconventional actions that Americans haven’t seen before. These see tariffs connected our allies, grounds breaking deportations, and a realignment of our overseas argumentation successful respect to Russia.

What Schumer understands, adjacent arsenic liberals similar "The Daily Show’s" Jon Stewart importune helium "do something!" is that determination is thing Congressional Republicans tin bash close present to halt Trump, including shutting down the government.

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So what is Chuck’s plan? He laid it retired rather intelligibly past week, stressing the request for Democrats to propulsion Trump’s occupation support lower, helium said, "He was astatine 51, he’s present astatine 48, we’re going to support astatine it until helium is nether 40."

What Schumer, and his much mean allies, nary uncertainty admit is that going into this week, Donald Trump was underwater successful the Real Clear Politics Average of support polls for the archetypal clip since being re-elected. 

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Why connected world would the Democrats person wanted to flip Trump a lifeline by shutting down the government?

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If Democrats sincerely judge that Trump’s policies volition pb to disaster, that tariffs volition rise prices, that Americans volition beryllium repelled by wide deportations, and that treating with Vladimir Putin volition person nightmarish geopolitical consequences, past wherefore get successful the way, particularly erstwhile you person nary leverage anyway?

And Schumer is not unsocial successful his much reserved attack to challenging Trump, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., who has begged his enactment not to acceptable its hairsbreadth connected occurrence each clip Trump opens his mouth, besides voted to support the authorities funded.

Meanwhile, California politician and presumptive White House hopeful Gavin Newsom is inviting MAGA figures similar Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk connected his podcast, portion erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is moving for politician of Gotham portion hardly mentioning Trump’s name.

Even the Ragin Cajun, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville has called for calm, penning successful these pages recently, "I deliberation it’s evident to anyone and everyone that Democrats' effect needs to beryllium deliberate, determined and dignified—not "The Charge of the Light Brigade. I recognize that Democrats are anxious and demanding more, but there’s a happening called a calendar, and determination are opportunities abound."

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This helping of the party, which is inactive excessively progressive for the state connected cardinal issues, astatine slightest understands the virtuousness of governmental patience, which is precisely wherefore far-left Democrats are anxious to crush this "normal" signifier of opposition.

AOC, The Squad and Nancy Pelosi are successful nary temper to springiness the Party of Jefferson & Jackson implicit to a clump of mean achromatic guys.

Make nary mistake, Trump’s archetypal period successful bureau was a glorious dash of run promises kept, but it was besides focused connected galore 70/30 oregon adjacent 80/20 issues, specified arsenic men successful women’s sports, oregon closing the confederate border.

Now, the Trump medication indispensable pivot to 50/50 issues, a overmuch heavier governmental lift.

A caller Gallup canvass shows a 16 percent summation successful enactment for Ukraine among Americans since December, deportations are moving beyond hardened criminals, and immoderate Americans are tense that Trump’s expansive economical semipermanent program mightiness travel with short-term pain.

Chuck Schumer didn’t emergence from the streets of Brooklyn to go the astir almighty Democrat successful Washington by being an idiot. He and Fetterman, and a big of astute Democrats are forgoing the changeless anti-Trump caterwaul and biding their time.

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As Republicans question to turn their bulk successful 2026 and solidify powerfulness successful 2028, the biggest situation they volition look is not aggravated leftists chanting successful the streets, it is calm, composed Democrats lying successful hold for immoderate and each mistakes that Trump mightiness make.

And that is precisely Chuck Schumer’s plan.

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