Schumer, Jeffries & Co. need to get real about the enemy to the left By Post Editorial Board

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 Schumer, Jeffries & Co. need to get real about the enemy to the left
By Post Editorial Board
Published June 29, 2026, 7:30 a.m. ET

Democratic Socialists, high on their victories last Tuesday, are already calling out House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul; the hard left’s hate for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was already well-established — so when will they get serious about fighting back?

One Election Night DSA crowd shouted, “You’re next” when Jeffries showed his face; NYC DSA chief Gustavo Gordillo told The New York Times that Hochul “knows we’re coming for her.”

Lefty candidates across the country talk of ousting Jeffries and Schumer from leadership, while regular Democrats wonder if they have what it takes to beat back the radicals.

Yet Jeffries says the DSA’s march won’t “reshape who we are” as Democrats; Schumer falls back on “We’re going to stop Trump” as if the hard lefties can’t say the same, but louder.

Hochul says . . . well, who cares? She’s already paid off Mayor Zohran Mamdani with billions in taxpayer cash for his agenda, ensuring no threat from the left in what will obviously be her final re-election campaign.

If she wins, she’ll keep up the concessions; it’s what she does.

The DSA’s plan is obvious: Keep turning city government into its own patronage farm and power base, starving old-school Dems’ supporters; play “salami politics” by slicing away at safe blue seats to win majorities of the Democratic caucuses in the state Assembly and Senate to push their legislative agendas and to start gerrymandering legislative and House districts to give them safe DSA seats.

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[Cyber Liberty]

Jeffries et al painted themselves into that corner.  They can't distance themselves from the outright Communists in their Party any more than they can sever a finger from their hand!

[Free Vulcan]

Hochul says . . . well, who cares? She’s already paid off Mayor Zohran Mamdani with billions in taxpayer cash for his agenda, ensuring no threat from the left in what will obviously be her final re-election campaign.

The problem for the DSA is that NYC is a fiscal time bomb. They've already taken and spent $8B from New York state government and just keep burning thru tax revenue that is likely to keep shrinking due to his policies.

At some point it will all blow up in their faces and Mamdani will just be a millstone around the DSA's neck.