FWIW, regardless of what you think on Schumer's strategies, I don't think it would be a terrible idea for Democrats to just throw him overboard. He's old, unpopular and one of the "old guard" leaders of what is currently a very unpopular party. There's no real good argument for keeping him on.
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If he can't do that, he's just play acting. Let him go on teevee with his stupid reading glasses pushed down and someone else can take the wheel
Go young and ruthless.
Once again - Americans could learn so much from parliamentary systems.
(Postscript: it worked)
Schumer seems fine at it, but he rode on her coattails. Without them, time for a real strategist and leader.
Also it was clear he never had a Plan B if the House passed a partisan CR. He just assumed it would not.
A problem of belief - do people actually have any particular reason to believe Dems meant what they said in '24? And that the situation is dire here and now?
If they roll over, no.
If they jettison their leadership? Now we're talking.
I don’t think most people are in that camp and frankly most people wouldn’t have been pushed away from Schumer if he simply stuck with the shit he said two days ago. It was a catastrophe in leadership
There's no real argument to *not* boot Schumer.
Schumer (generally) has shown himself to be way more risk averse and way more milquetoast.
He’s obviously bad at this stuff (his career shows it), but that maneuver made the shutdown or no shutdown about democrats.
And that’s political malpractice.
Irrespective of what happens he has become radioactive and needs to be replaced - right now as minority leader and later in the 2028 primary.
They want Trump reined in and that ship sailed in November. Sadly, my prediction is, if there is a change in Minority Leaders, we hear the same complaints in a few weeks.