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Chuck Schumer is running scared from his own party.
He can’t even hit the road to promote his new book, “Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” for fear of protests.
The Senate minority leader has had to postpone his publicity tour out of what his spokeswoman calls “security concerns.”
Progressive Democrats, furious Schumer passed a Republican spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, are getting up close to show him how angry they are.
They’re demonstrating outside his home in Brooklyn, and wherever he might hawk his book, protesters were ready to follow.
So, to dodge embarrassment or worse, Schumer’s beat a retreat.
Such is life at the top of the Democratic Party these days.
Because Schumer couldn’t outmaneuver Trump in the budget showdown, his own team considers him not just a loser but a traitor.
House Democrats have even begun encouraging Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to launch a primary challenge against him.
The 74-year-old senator isn’t up for re-election until 2028, which is too long for Democrats to wait, according to The Nation — the progressive magazine’s Jeet Heer is calling for Schumer to resign immediately, both from leadership and the Senate.
No wonder CNN’s latest poll shows Democrats with a record-low favorability rating of just 29% — the party is at war with itself, and Democratic voters themselves increasingly dislike what they see from their elected officials, and leaders like Schumer.
Yet the CNN survey shows only 16% of Democrats think their party is too extreme.
Schumer knows better: That’s why he’s lying low instead of out selling his antisemitism book.
New York’s senior senator is a moderate by the standards of his party today, but his book, and not just its wrecked publicity tour, is a sign of how badly adrift the Democrats are.
Schumer is publishing a warning about antisemitism at the same time he’s embroiled in the party’s infighting over Israel, Palestine and campus protests targeting Jews.
He’s taken a weaker stand against campus antisemitism than the Trump administration has and opposes deporting Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian immigrant studying Columbia University, for his anti-Israel activism.
Yet Schumer outraged progressive opinion yet again on Sunday, when answers he gave in an interview with The New York Times led critics to his left to accuse him of essentially agreeing with Trump’s decision to withhold $400 million in federal funding from Columbia because of its poor record in combating antisemitism.
Late last year, however, a report by the House Education and Workforce Committee — under Republican control, it should be noted — claimed Schumer had told Columbia’s then-president, Minouche Shafik, not to worry about a reckoning over antisemitism if Democrats took over the Senate.
The university’s “political problems are really only among Republicans,” Schumer was alleged to have said — though a Schumer spokesman denied those were his words and called the report “hearsay.”
Schumer’s trouble, though, is that the more he does to try to appear moderate, the more the progressives in his own party identify him not with centrism, but with Trump.
Stopping a government shutdown?
That’s Trumpism.
Telling the Times when a campus protest “shades over to violence and antisemitism, the colleges had to do something, and a lot of them didn’t do enough”?
That’s Trumpism.
In the eyes of his own party, Chuck Schumer isn’t a moderate, he’s a coward, handing Trump victory after victory when what Democrats need most is the will to resist the president.
But to anyone who’s not a Democrat, Schumer’s pretense of moderation is completely exploded by the simple fact that he’s a leader of a party that’s nowhere near the center.
Schumer isn’t alone in his agony.
Other prominent Democrats, such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, are finding it just as hard to distance themselves from the left without winding up too close to Trump for the comfort of the party base.
Newsom’s sin has been to have MAGA masterminds like Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on his podcast.
The California governor who still dreams of higher office has also “evolved” on the question of letting men participate in women’s sports — that is, he’s come around to a view closer to Trump’s, because that’s where the common-sense center of politics is today.
The Democratic base wants the party to be defined by vehement opposition to the president — while the Democrats’ clever and unprincipled leaders know the smart play is to become more like him.
Last year Donald Trump defeated the Democrats.
This year, he gets to sit back and watch them defeat themselves, as progressive protesters who might have picketed his events eight years ago now turn their ire on Chuck Schumer.
Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review and editor-at-large of The American Conservative.