President Trump may be about to save Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) political career.

If Trump's 20-point plan for peace in Gaza takes hold, the fiery anti-Israel passions fueling the far left will fade. That means the threat from progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who flits like a moth around the bright flame of Schumer’s Senate seat, is likely to recede.

The Senate majority leader, thus freed from the threat of a primary battle in 2028, may be emboldened to do his job. He can finally vote to reopen the government and live to fight another day.

Schumer should pray that Trump’s plan works. He might even pray that the president is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a small price to pay for his own survival — although that may be too much to hope for.

Everyone with a heart should want the hostilities and carnage in Gaza and Israel to stop. But for the Democratic Party, and especially the moderates who remain, the resolution of a conflict that has energized and fueled the progressive left is a game-changer. It could lead Democrats back to sanity — not just on Israel, but on crime, immigration and other policies where the left wing of the party has abandoned the essential middle.

Consider progressive Democrat Zohran Mamdani, who is running to become mayor of New York City. One of his trademark issues is his antagonism to Israel. He has yet to denounce his former call to “Globalize the Intifada,” an especially hostile threat to Jews, and has said that, if elected, he will

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