Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 17, 2025
Schumer’s Legacy: Rolling Over for Trump While Democracy Burns
History will remember him as the man who let fascism rise without a fight…
Chuck Schumer had one job: to stand between Donald Trump and the complete dismantling of American democracy. Instead, he caved — again — handing Trump the power he craved without a fight, without a demand, without even a moment of real resistance. With every cowardly compromise, Schumer isn't just failing Democrats — he's enabling an autocrat in real-time.
The question most Democrats want to ask of Leader Chuck Schumer in the Senate appears to be, "How's that 'keeping the government open to hold Trump accountable' thing working out for you?"
Everything Trump does now going forward, when people or the press complain, he will say was authorized by "bipartisan legislation" with "the full support of the Senate Democrats."
In fact, just hours after Schumer and a handful of timid Senate Democrats voted to pass Trump's Enabling Acts of 2025 legislation, the president issued an executive order gifting Vladimir Putin with the gutting of the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution.