Schumer quietly nails down the left amid AOC primary chatter
The congresswoman’s decision on whether to challenge New York's senior senator may hinge on how he wields the new Democratic majority.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
02/01/2021 04:30 AM EST
Just a few weeks after a group of young climate activists, accompanied by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, orchestrated a highly publicized sit-in in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in late 2018, their Sunrise Movement received an unexpected email from Chuck Schumer’s staff.
Could the rabble-rousers meet with the then-Senate minority leader? He wanted to talk to them about his agenda if Democrats ever won back the Senate, which included tackling climate change, democracy reform, and economic and racial inequality. Before long, his team was asking for their support on a clean cars proposal.
Schumer’s outreach was likely no coincidence. New York, the veteran senator’s home state, is the epicenter of the progressive movement’s efforts to oust incumbent Democrats in Congress. And Schumer, who is up for reelection in 2022, has been taking steps both publicly and privately to steel himself from a left-wing primary challenge — especially from his biggest threat, Ocasio-Cortez.
At the time of the meeting, Ocasio-Cortez was fresh off her stunning primary upset victory. She hadn’t even been sworn into office yet. But in the two years since then, Schumer has thrown his weight behind a plan to cancel student loan debt by executive order. He's voted against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. He’s said “nothing is off the table” when it comes to eliminating the filibuster. And that’s only a fraction of the progressive moves he’s made in recent years. It still hasn’t inoculated him from the possibility of a primary.
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the very institution his new "boss" had just been elected to.
His dissident group(s) got her elected, and he and the other guy she brought to DC seemed to be having a little trouble with the power shift from them to her.
She let them go not just after a bunch of her new colleagues complained angrily about them (enemies in the house) but very soon after Chakrabarti announced that they might not have her run for reelection, depending. 
Her continued connection with these types says very bad things to me. But it's also probable that she'd be afraid to cut it even if she wanted. Their media operation got her elected and turned against her might well take her down.
her national following, who keep the money flowing to her and are also the air under her national media coverage wings -- but who can't vote. And her illiberal left supporters are already unhappy with her for playing to both sides of the ideological fence; they thrill to denunciations of the Democratic Party and demand more.
She's swimming in their money, though, so not the worst position to be in either.
general ideals and goals of the majorities in their districts. Isn't that the case for most Democrats, more liberal positions in more liberal districts, more conservative in others? Representative government. Then, as you say, but definitely short of throwing in, or pretending to, with groups actively opposed to the will of the majority.
....him openly showing admiration for a WWII Nazi collaborator, and refusing to back down. That and his questionable "dark money" PACs, LLCs, etc. He has a few.
A couple of pictures:
More about Subhas Chandra Bose:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose
