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There’s a Big Sea Change Underway Among Even the Most Conventional Dems

When Kathy Hochul is talking about going to “war” in a nationwide, brass-knuckle political fight and Chuck Schumer is going quasi-edge-lord on social media taunting Donald Trump, you know it’s a sea change moment. It’s not because even now you expect the most from these two. It’s because even these two — the most conventional and old school of politicians — clearly see what’s being demanded of them and are trying to get ahead of that wave that is transforming the assumptions about power and political action within the Democratic party.

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If throwing Schumer under the bus isn't on the agenda you haven't changed. He set the tone early on that he's not willing to do anything extreme to fight the Trump agenda.
Schumer knows his days are numbered. So he's pretending to have a spine. Too little, too late.
- Numbered 2028, when he's up for reelection.
  
  That's a very long time for voter memories.
Talk's cheap, Let's see some action.
- The whole point of the article is that we're actually seeing action in the form of voting behavior in Congreess, state reps leaving Texas to prevent a worse gerrymandering, etc.
Can we please be rational about all of this? The only way forward is tit-for-tat. Else we face certain defeat. We can at least force a stalemate.
- Basically, when Trump took office a lot of Congressional Democrats weren't voting against him in any kind of consistent way. Like half were voting to confirm his nominees. Its taken a lot of pressure to get them to start fighting at all.
This validated so many feelings I have about Hochul.

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