After enduring weeks of deprecation and outright denigration at the hands of Michigan’s Democratic Socialists of America (formally, Progressive-Democratic Party) nominee for US Senate Abdul el-Sayed, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, NY) has…come out in support of el-Sayed for Senate. This, even after el-Sayed campaigned on, among other things, his commitment to ensure his first vote in the Senate would be against Schumer continuing as Leader, whether Minority or Majority.

It’s unseemly, and it’s sad, to see an old man so desperate to keep his leadership job that he’ll toady up to those who so openly don’t like him.