Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is at a crossroads. I have an idea of the route he should take.

For months, we’ve watched the senator from New York continue to run the Democratic Party into the ground. In a time when the opposition party is tiptoeing toward authoritarianism and rapidly shifting its messaging to appease an increasingly radical base, Democrats need a leader who is quick on their feet and ready to do things differently. Schumer, to this point, has proved that he is incapable of being that.

If the Democratic Party is going to survive President Donald Trump’s second term, it needs someone at the helm who can manage the party’s broad spectrum of politics while sending the message to voters that there are people fighting for them. It's time for the Democratic Party to head in a new direction, and it’s time for Schumer to step away from leadership.

Schumer had two spectacular failures recently after a series of missteps in 2025. On Nov. 10, he failed to keep moderate Senate Democrats from siding with Republicans in their plot to end the government shutdown without guaranteeing health care subsidies. Earlier in the month, he

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