The two highest-ranking Democratic members of Congress both call New York City home, but even with their personal connection to the city where immigration agents abducted a recent Columbia University graduate for his involvement in pro-Palestinian protests, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have had little to say about Saturday night’s arrest.
Amid mounting calls from House progressives and advocacy groups for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil on Monday evening, Jeffries released a statement that one local rights group derided as “word salad,” starting by accepting the Trump administration’s narrative about the former student who helped organize last year’s Palestinian solidarity encampment.
“Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are not the men for this moment in history,” saidNew Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang. “So obvious and gets more obvious by the day.”
If you stick to FPTP and both parties deteriorate your conditions you will never reach improvement.
Your argument has led to what we see now.
Your argument just as much as mine has lead to what we see now. Third parties have repeatedly failed to surmount the duopoly, and not for a lack of trying. My argument is not a recommitment to the duopoly.