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A Scathing Indictment
All the reasons to jettison DC leadership in one place
mister mix
September 03, 2025
Reader John sent in this Medhi Hasan piece that catalogs the failures of both Jeffries and Schumer. The first few graphs are pretty damning:
In a recent podcast conversation, the former spokesperson for Jeb Bush sat down with the leader of the House Democrats. Guess which one of them endorsed the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York?
“I was a Republican up until two minutes ago and I’m a capitalist, and I had Zohran on … it’s not really a close call, is it?” Tim Miller said to Hakeem Jeffries on his Bulwark podcast, to which a defensive-sounding House Minority leader replied: “What I can say is that he’s the only one I’m scheduled to talk to.”
Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.
This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.
Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.
As Kay noted in the comments recently, the basic unfairness of this is a real problem. I’ve spent years hearing from Blue MAGA just how much shit I’m supposed to eat, with a smile, yet when it comes time for them to suck it up, they quietly back a sexual predator. They don’t even have the guts to say publicly that they want Cuomo to win. It’s typical of their silent brand of leadership that they are silent about their Cuomo support.
If we do get new party leaders, which is a huge “if” because these two control an immense amount of fundraising and therefore can demand loyalty from their members, they shouldn’t be from New York. That state’s Democratic Party is so fucked up that they’ll need a lot of time to sort themselves out without providing us any "leadership”.
The rest of the piece is worth reading because it will remind you of all the ways that these two weaklings have screwed up in the past few months.
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