Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has chosen an inopportune time to publish a book. The release of Antisemitism in America: A Warning coincides with a revolt among Democrats against his failure to oppose a Republican budget that slashes Medicaid and other domestic spending. To avoid protests, he has had to cancel his book tour. His media interviews often feature questions about how the Democratic Party lost its way.
Antisemitism in America inadvertently helps explain the depth of frustration with Schumer: Although its subject is Jew-hatred, it reveals why Schumer can’t adequately confront the authoritarian danger posed by Donald Trump. In his book, Washington’s most powerful Democrat fails to recognize both the nature of the white nationalist threat powering the Trump presidency and the necessity of building a mass movement to fight it…..more
