Every child knows the fable of the scorpion who swears not to sting the frog who ferries him across a river — but unsheathes his poison at the end of the journey.

 “I thought you promised not to sting me!” the incredulous frog exclaims as he perishes. 

 “Well, you knew I was a scorpion,” the other responds.

Sen. Chuck Schumer seems unaware of the tale — and its lesson.  

Leftist revolutions tend to eat their own: The French Revolution’s Maximilien Robespierre met the Jacobins’ guillotine, and Josef Stalin murdered the onetime allies who tried to moderate his fervor. 

Yet Schumer prostrated himself to the far left’s ill-conceived government shutdown this fall. 

After resoundingly losing the White House, the House and the Senate in 2024, there is no world in which the Democrats could have won the shutdown battle and taken the reins in health-care policy.

It was dumb politics, a tantrum act of narcissism and unreality. 

Do the leftists take responsibility? No.

Instead they want to send Schumer to the political guillotine. How Jacobian.

Rather than alter their failed “Oppose Trump at All Costs” strategy, the progressive socialists are doubling........

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