Neither Jeffries nor Schumer has called for impeachment or removal in response to the threat. Their refusal to act is sure to ignite further fury as the Democratic Party still manages to garner worse approval ratings than Republicans due to widespread views that the party is weak and ineffective collaborators.

On Wednesday, Schumer, a longtime supporter of Israel, held a press conference criticizing Trump for the war and the ceasefire — making critiques not necessarily of the concept of war with Iran itself, but of the way that Trump is going about it.

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    3 hours ago

    A lot of people don’t understand this.

    Early on, only adult men with land could vote.

    In the War of 1812, many people opposed conquering Canada not because it would be morally wrong, but because annexed Canada would give too much power to the abolitionist states.

    Then we had Andrew Jackson, the Trump of the early 1830s, who did a bunch of bad shit. And South Carolina kicked off some prelude to the Civil War with Nullification.

    Pretty much everything from Reconstruction to WW2 was big corporate doing whatever they wanted with the American population. With some disruptions involving angry employees, of course.