In a The New York Times OP/ED, Anand Giridharadas recounts a statement from Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer that I do not believe.
I don’t know whether Mr. Giridharadas is trying to blow smoke up our ass-holes, or if Schumer is trying to blow smoke up Mr. Giridharadas’ asshole, but this is quote is simply not credible:
On Election Day eve, I spoke with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York — the minority leader, who could, by a razor’s edge, become the majority leader in 2021 if the results of two presumptive runoffs for Senate seats in Georgia go the Democrats’ way. Because, like Mr. Biden, Mr. Schumer is an institutionalist and a moderate, I asked him about this idea of restoration versus transformation. Almost as soon as he heard me say the word “normalcy,” he began, for lack of a better term, to filibuster: “No, no, I don’t buy that.”
“My view,” he told me, “is if we don’t do bold change, we could end up with someone worse than Donald Trump in four years.” What passed for change in the past two decades (including during the Obama years) had not, he acknowledged, been “big enough or bold enough.” When I asked if Democrats bore some responsibility for that, he deflected: “There’s plenty of blame to go around.”
Charles Schumer is a creature of the status quo, a creature of our corrupt campaign finance system, and a creature of the special interests.
If you believe that he will be an agent of change, I want 15 grams of whatever you are smoking sent up to my room, because it is some intense sh%$.
He's scared of being primaried by AOC. Good. Now do something.
I don't think that he is scared of AOC primarying him, the New York election laws are the most challenger unfriendly in the nation.
I think that he is scared that some of his "Very Good Friends" in the Senate are going to get robust primary challenges though, and that those folks might want to replace him as Democratic leader of the Senate.