“The Dems won’t walk away from this fight until Chuck Schumer has regained a degree of street cred with progressives.”Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...by MARK POWELL***The message had the bluntness of a Manhattan cab driver: “The way out of this shutdown is to sit down and negotiate with Democrats,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) solemnly said Wednesday afternoon. “Democrats do not want a shutdown,” Schumer insisted with a straight face. Chuck Schumer is in serious trouble with his left flank, and he’s frantically engaged in damage control mode. “The Dems won’t walk away from this fight until Chuck Schumer has regained a degree of street cred with progressives,” a Republican political operative observed. It’s the Chuck Schumer Shutdown, plain and simple.”***ABOUT THE AUTHOR…Mark Powell (Provided)J.