@fm2279@social.coop I realize this is reductive, but I always come around again and again to the fact that Chuck Schumer goes way back with Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html

The party itself is intellectually bankrupt--roll over and play dead is the "daring" strategy Carville suggests in that article--nakedly corrupt, and decadent. I think there is not enough cohesion within it to mount a response with enough oomph to overcome the petty aims of individuals like Schumer. It seems like the courts--the last and definitely not best line of defense--are the main hope right now.