…while actually supporting him against the cacophonous Democrats now calling for the Senate Minority Leader’s head. It’s a classic Sen. John Kennedy TV hit.

“The loon wing of the Democrat Party is firmly in control,” he says.

Kennedy said he doesn’t think the Democrats will actually take Schumer out in the wake of last week’s continuing resolution cave-in despite the fact they’re in full mutiny mode. He thinks they’re afraid of him.

Here’s the segment. I’ll have more comments below:

It just so happens that while this segment was airing I was writing the chapter of my forthcoming book The Revivalist Revolution about the collapse of the Democrat Party, and this current imbroglio Schumer finds himself enmeshed in is one of the examples I was using to illustrate that collapse.

The passage of the continuing resolution, and Schumer’s refusal to filibuster it, was a sizable moment in modern American history in that for once, Republicans actually maneuvered things so that it was Democrats who faced a Hobson’s choice and found themselves checkmated into their voters throwing chairs at them.

Schumer and his colleagues could either do what they did, which was to let the CR get a vote and therefore pass with relatively mild budget cuts (and the door open to some drastic changes they really won’t like in the coming months), or filibuster it and bring on a government shutdown. In the past, the shutdown was always a threat Republicans couldn’t withstand, because the legacy corporate media and shortly thereafter the general public would always blame the GOP – and when shutdown scenarios arose with a Democrat president, there would be the inevitable abuses aimed at maximizing the pain on average Americans.

This time, though, it was different.

Nobody cares what CNN or the New York Times says about a government shutdown anymore, and because of that, Republicans are less easily hornswoggled into making stupid tactical decisions inside the Capitol.

But more importantly, the Trump administration is engaged in a process of dismantling large swaths of the federal bureaucracy which are wasteful, obsolete, abusive or counterproductive. Office of Management and Budget director Ross Vought, who had the same job in Trump’s first term, had spent the four years previous to this one at a think tank, the Center For Renewing America, gaming out exactly how he could use a government shutdown to wipe out all of the programs and agencies the country doesn’t need anymore and is wasting money on a compounding basis (given the massive deficits and compounding interest on the national debt those are inflicting).

So in the case of a shutdown, the OMB director is tasked with designating which parts of the government are essential and thus stay open, and which parts are nonessential and are therefore shuttered.

At The American Spectator last week, I likened the shutdown scenario to the Br’er Rabbit briar patch story from the old Uncle Remus children’s books, and Ross Vought is the king of the briar patch. Give him the shutdown and he’ll accomplish everything he’s wanted to do since 2017 with no ability for anybody to do a thing about it.

Including taking any of the cuts or consolidations to court, which as you’ll notice is the primary political strategy of the Democrat Party. In fact, Schumer did an interview with Chris Hayes at MSNBC on Tuesday and spilled the beans on that question; he all but advertised that stupid lawsuits seeking to gum up the works of the Trump administration’s activity is his party’s game.

That and bitching nonstop about how terrible Trump and Elon Musk are. Schumer waxed hopeful that nonstop grousing and name-calling will grind Trump’s popularity down to the point that he’ll be ineffective and lacking in political capital, and of course the nonstop legal challenges to relatively ordinary administrative actions like reorganizing government departments and deporting criminal illegal aliens are aimed at making sure Trump can’t claim any wins along the way.

As I noted in the book chapter, though, there are two problems with this. Number one, the “loon wing” of the Democrat Party that Kennedy references isn’t satisfied with Schumer’s plan. It isn’t shiny, performative or confrontational enough.

And number two, polls show that the American people are utterly disgusted by the Democrat Party right now. Surveys by CNN and NBC, respectively, pegged support for the Democrats at 29 and 27 percent. And those surveys overwhelmingly showed that the public wants Democrats to work with the GOP majority rather than throwing bombs at it.

They also show general support for the DOGE/OMB government reorganization plan.

The problem is that Democrat poll respondents are outliers, because they want the bomb-throwing. They’re angry at Schumer because they wanted the filibuster to go with the bitching and suing, regardless of whether the effect of the filibuster would have negated the lawfare.

Like Kennedy says, the “loon wing” is the power in that party. Which sucks for Schumer, even though he isn’t going anywhere at the end of the day.