When the Left Eats Its Own: Schumer Gets Run Over by the Train He Lay On

Trump derangement —and now, Musk derangement— is reaching pathological levels. Yesterday, an Axios story ran under the headline, “‘They hate us’: Congressional Democrats confront their own furious Tea Party.” The article described the Democrat base’s record-low approval of their own party.

“Democratic members of Congress,” Axios reported, “have been encountering a level of anger and hostility that some see as reminiscent of the 2010 Tea Party wave.” An unidentified lawmaker said a voter in her district at a recent Town Hall furiously asked, “Democrats are too nice. Nice and civility doesn’t work. Are you prepared for violence?”

Axios said the representative left the Town Hall “crying.” She tearfully and repetitively exclaimed, “They hate us! They hate us.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranked Democrat official in America, is in deep political doo-doo. By leading a ten-member team of Democrats who helped pass last week’s Republican Continuing Resolution, he has drawn the ire of the Democrat fever swamp. MSNBC ran an op-ed this morning headlined, “Chuck Schumer’s capitulation to Trump is blowing up in his face.”

“An increasing number of liberal organizations,” the writer reported, “are calling on Schumer to either step down from his leadership position or to fight more aggressively.” They mocked Schumer’s February position, where he pledged to lie down on the train tracks to stop Republicans. Sneering Democrats pointed out that, when you lie down on the train tracks, you get run over by the train.

Chuckie, 74, has chosen. He chose fighting. This week he wisely postponed a scheduled book tour, instead —very sprightly for a 74-year-old— went on a damage-controlling media rampage, spewing violent rhetoric, which until ten minutes ago, was the worst thing ever.

In recent days, Schumer has called Republicans in Congress “fanatics,” “zealots,” and “vicious nihilists.”

Things are not well within the donkey party. The Boston Globe cheerlessly suggested, “If Chuck Schumer gets pushed out of Senate leadership, Elizabeth Warren should replace him.” NBC unsarcastically reported, and I am not making this up, “The Bidens want back in.”

Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) tweeted a mild-mannered rebuke, in his usual affable style:

 
Rank-and-file Democrats, irritated with their leaders’ weak rhetoric and failures to call for duels on the House steps or horsewhip Republicans in the well of the Senate, began taking matters into their own hands.

The target of their blossoming ire was climate-friendly electric cars.

This week, KFOX-14 ran a story headlined, “2 arrested in Colorado Tesla attacks face federal charges for use of incendiary devices.” The article was darkly amusing. “Two men in Colorado face serious federal charges after a series of violent, destructive attacks on a Tesla dealership,” it began, naming “Cooper Jo Frederick, 24, and Lucy Grace Nelson, 42.” Here are the two men:

 
Lucy, above right, is a ‘transgender woman’ (biological male) who was arrested for spray-painting hateful Nazi symbols and obscenities onto a Tesla dealership. The cops found Lucy’s car was “packed with gasoline, Molotov cocktail materials, and wick material.”

That’s not very ladylike.

The two ‘men,’ and I use that term loosely (since KFOX did), were both charged with unnamed federal crimes. I assume that means domestic terrorism, which carries a five-year minimum upon conviction.

Blame Biden’s lawless lack of protestor prosecution for this epidemic of anti-electric rage. They are used to no-bail slaps on the wrist. But things are very different now. This isn’t Joe Biden’s DOJ.

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