Still Talking About Chuck Schumer
Grassroots pressure forces our leaders to do better - or make way for someone who will.
Every week feels like a year these days, amiright?
The country is a shitshow right now, and as long as he’s in the Oval Office, that’s not going to change. Our news media isn’t helping, but in their defense: The feces are being strewn 24/7 in every direction, and it’s no wonder that we all feel exhausted from constantly trying to clean it up.
But some topics require us to focus for a while as we try to figure out a better way. And that is the case with last week’s rock-and-hard place-battle to keep the government funded.
“The purpose of speaking out and the purpose of being critical of certain things is to push them to do better. It’s not to make them sad or to make them resign, it’s to push them to do better,” says Karoli in this week’s podcast. “So Chuck Schumer has an option. If we’re all yelling at him, he can do better. And then we won’t want new leadership, right? But if he doesn’t do better, then we need somebody who will.”
Karoli, Aliza, and I went on to ponder what new leadership for the Senate Democrats might look like. And you won’t believe who Karoli thinks could be helpful for strategizing what comes next.
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One Last Thing
Shorter version of what we’ve been talking about:
