Should Senate Dems dump Schumer as their leader after the midterm?

[Morning in Atlas]

Nah. Schumer is not the problem - the problem is the systemic rot in the Democrat Party. Not only were many of the Democrat failures in the Senate and Congress avoidable, but the focus on Manchin and Sinema takes heat off the Shaheens and Warners of the world.

Sinema has a slight excuse, being from a conservative state, but Kelly exists. Without him, we shrug our shoulders and deal with her. Manchin is a grifting POS who legislates on his own career, but has the Democrats by the balls. Everyone here knows it's quite literally Manchin or a Republican.

I consider the Warners and Coonses and Carpers and Shaheens of the caucus - people who come from various shades of blue territory - more dangerous than Manchin and Sinema. These are states where we legitimately can do better but don't. They're states where we can and should vote for someone who supports key Democrat agenda pieces like raising the minimum wage, or the PRO Act, or legalizing marijuana.

These people may not be as conservative as Manchinema, but they're just as bought off. Take the minimum wage thing, for example. Chris Pappas, who has not only been drawn into a more Republican district, but personally loses money because he owns a restaurant, voted to raise the minimum wage. But Shaheen and Hassan won't because a Republican donor who owned a restaurant chain threatened to cut off support. These sh*tty blue state Democrats have no reason to be making the votes they do other than their egos or their campaign accounts.

This is why the "elect more Democrats" talking point people love to talk about fails. Voting for more Democrats doesn't work for me, because the Democrats I tried electing voted against it anyway! Manchin and Sinema suck, but there are about five or ten other Democrats we need to worry about. If we were like the Republican Party, these people would have lost their primaries.

Part of this is because of my own cynical views on the Democratic Party. I think they blindly chase fundraising and nothing else, leaving bad candidates like Sara Gideon and Amy McGrath to run. Ultimately a huge part of it is more because there's a lot more institutional attachment to the Democratic Party than the GOP. While Republican interest groups see the party as more of a vehicle to implement their policies, Democrats see the party as their identity.

So Democrats see these bad incumbents as Real Democrats, support them unconditionally, and the people primarying them as entryist socialist Marxist lunatics. Obviously Twitter isn't scientific but it's crazy to see the same people who called Charles Booker one of Bernie's Russian agents donating to him because he's running against Rand Paul.

This is why I'm growing increasingly cynical and pessimistic with the Democrats' future. The rot of greed is simply too deep. The almighty dollar and donor rule, and Manchin and Sinema take the focus off of the 10 others stifling progress. At this point, the only point for progress is to either spend 10 years purging the Democrats of their rot of greed or to make a new party.