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On January 14, 1963, George Wallace was inaugurated as the newest governor of Alabama at the state capitol in Montgomery. His inauguration speech was penned by Asa Carter, the founder of the local KKK. In it, he infamously declared: “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” 51 years later, at a pro-Israel rally in New York, Hakeem Jeffries, the man poised to become the first black leader of either party in either house of Congress in history, repurposed that infamous line once used to uphold the apartheid state in the American South in support of the Israeli apartheid state half a world away. Jeffries and Schumer, both of whom have been named as two of Israel’s greatest champions in Congress, are both eyeing the respective leadership roles in the House and Senate, declaring victory for themselves this election cycle despite being some of the greatest obstacles that many of this election’s democratic winners had to overcome to achieve what they did. The mainstream media would have you believe that their nomination and election to the role of Speaker of the House for Jeffries and Majority Leader for Schumer is nothing but a foregone conclusion. I’m here to tell you it’s not. When asked about whether he’s concerned about his party choosing him as their leader, Chuck Schumer declared without hesitation, without a doubt in his mind, I’ll be named the new majority leader. [insert clip.] This despite the fact that numerous members of the Senate have indicated they don’t support him and his approval rating is lower than President Trump’s. This despite the fact that both Schumer and Jeffries have proven themselves completely incapable of meeting this moment, of leading an opposition party facing one of the greatest threats to democracy that America has ever seen. They assume the status quo will stay because that is what they have always benefited from. This election and the blue wave was not a mandate from the people to continue on as usual. This was a generational change, and a clear declaration from the people that change is needed. That change has to start at the top, with the leaders who have sat on their hands while fascism laid down roots in America. They are FAR too secure in the idea that their continued leadership is a foregone conclusion despite the fact that they have done NOTHING to prove themselves capable of filling those roles. This is my official treatise on why Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are unfit to lead anything, let alone the greatest resistance to fascism that the western world has seen since the second world war.
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First let’s get some logistics out of the way–what do the party leaders in the house and senate do, why it matters, and how they’re chosen. The constitution is largely silent on how the house and senate are run. It mostly just says quote “The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers.” For the Senate, the constitution designates the Vice President as the President of the Senate, and the Senate gets to choose their other officers including a President pro tempore who operates in the absence of the President of the senate. And it gives each chamber the right to determine the rules of its own proceedings. That’s it. The constitution doesn’t contemplate a party system like we have it today and so the idea of a majority or minority leader came afterwards. So over time the chambers have established rules and norms, many of which aren’t written down they’re just based on custom and history and tradition, around the roles and selection of leadership. In the Senate, the majority leader is chosen by the party with the majority. They are selected in a closed door, secret ballot process. It requires someone to be nominated first and then a simple majority must vote to confirm them as the majority leader. The same is done by the party in the minority to select the minority leader. There are also then majority and minority whips under the leaders that are seen as kind of their right hand person to help them do their job.
In the house, the speaker of the house can technically be anyone but typically it is the person who is seen as the leader of the majority party in the house. The process for nominating someone to be the speaker of the house is also a closed-door process done via secret ballot. So when I say secret ballot that means we do not know how each individual person votes. The only vote we DO know is once someone is nominated to be speaker of the house, then a floor vote is held and a simple majority is needed to select the speaker. But the nomination of the speaker is behind closed doors the same way the selection of the senate majority leader is behind closed doors–there’s no way to know how your individual senator voted and there’s no way to know how your individual representative acted behind closed doors while they were selecting the nominee for speaker of the house. The house also has a house majority leader and house minority leader, both of which are chosen behind closed doors again. Again this is all norms and customs and history and tradition this is just how they’ve always done it, which Trump has shown us is not a GREAT way to establish a country because it turns out if it’s just “what’s always been done” it can then always be done a different way if someone comes along and decides to. For better or for worse. One thing that is written into law, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, is that the Speaker of the house is second in line after the Vice President to succeed the presidency. The majority leader of the Senate doesn’t even make the succession list. After the speaker of the house is the president pro tempore of the Senate. So right now that means that Mike Johnson and Chuck Grassley are right in line behind JD Vance to take the presidency if needed.
Beyond that, the job of both the speaker of the house and of the senate majority leader is to help set the priorities of the legislative session moving forward. They schedule legislation to be considered for a floor vote, plan short and long term legislative agendas, work to rally members of their party around important votes and take a temperature for how a vote will go–they are never supposed to be surprised by the outcome of a vote, they have to know the temperature in the room at all times and work to get shit passed. So to be good at this job you have to be effective at communicating the legislative agenda not just to your party but to the American people who elect you. You have to be good at building relationships, at persuasion, at advocating for your cause, at resolving disagreements and finding compromise. You have to be smart and strategic. The amount of power and control that the speaker and the senate majority leader have is profound–they can make or break a legislative session. And it’s frankly not a job many people want because I don’t know about you but that sounds annoying as hell, like trying to herd cats, trying to reason with a huge group of people with vastly different ideas about what’s right for the country and for their specific constituents. But I think that list of responsibilities makes it deeply, painfully clear that neither Chuck Schumer nor Hakeem Jeffries are up to the job. But let’s take each in turn, shall we?
Here’s why Chuck Schumer is unfit to lead the Senate’s new Democratic majority and fulfill the mandate clearly sent by the American people with this election. A lot of people, including senators saying they’ll back Schumer for majority leader, are saying well he worked really hard to win this election for us, he selected some of the winning candidates, he knows how to win elections. But election and campaign strategy is not the sole or even principle role of a senate majority leader. He also actively worked AGAINST some of the winners from last week, notably Abdul El-Sayed who won in Michigan DESPITE Chuck Schumer’s best efforts. There are tons of democratic operatives that helped win those elections, they don’t all deserve majority leadership roles. He can go through the revolving door and work for a consulting firm if he’s so good at winning elections.
And I don’t disagree that he is good at winning elections. In fact it’s the only thing he is good at. Because it’s the only thing he’s ever done. Chuck Schumer was what we lawyers in the biz call a “K through JD.” K as in kindergarten straight through to a law degree. He went from high school, to college, no work experience, straight to law school. He graduated law school in 1975 and never practiced law for a day in his life, he immediately ran for New York state assembly and won. He held his seat until 1981 when he ran for and won a seat in the US House of Representatives, a seat he held until 1999 when he ran for and won the Senate seat he currently holds. He’s been a politician since we were still recovering from WATERGATE. He’s ONLY ever been a politician. So yes, he can clearly win elections, but what the fuck else can he do? I don’t think he’s ever once in his life left the east coast except of course for frequent trips to Israel. That’s of course an exaggeration but I’m telling you, I am someone who grew up in Minnesota and then went to New York for undergrad and Boston for law school, east coast elitism is a VERY real thing. They do not call most of the US “flyover country” ironically they genuinely think there is nothing and no one worthwhile between New York and LA, the contempt that east coast elites feel towards the VAST majority of Americans, towards southerners, towards midwesterners, towards people they think of as po-dunk, small-minded, back country, small towners, it’s real. I have lived it. That is who is running the country, that includes Chuck Schumer and that’s all Chuck Schumer has ever known, those are the only people Chuck Schumer has ever rubbed elbows with. Chuck Schumer, clearly, feels more comfortable shaking hands with Trump in the oval office than chatting with, I don’t know, workers from a small town in Ohio, for example. That is the only world he has ever known. AND he’s 75 years old? Of COURSE he’s going to seem out of touch with what the American people want, how could he NOT be?
And because he’s so out of touch, he is fundamentally not capable of meeting this moment. And he has made that very clear for the last two years. MIGHT I REMIND YOU of his capitulation during both government shut downs last year, when he agreed to end the shutdown without getting ANY concrete results for Democrats, without using any of the little leverage his party did have to benefit anyone? In fact, Schumer has been the democratic leader of the Senate since Trump first took office in 2017. He’s had his time to prove to us that he was capable of meeting the moment, of being a strong opposition leader, of managing a fraught, deeply divided political time, and he has come up short. His ability to occasionally pick winners and win elections does not make up for his dismal record as a leader in the Senate.
Chuck Schumer is also severely lacking in anything one could call charisma. Perhaps he had charisma when he first got into politics in 1975, and I’m not saying a 75 year old man CAN’T have charisma, but the man has clearly not kept up with the times, he does not inspire hope or confidence or excitement or pride. He consistently says and does things that are completely tone deaf to the American people, most recently in the way he so flippantly decreed that he would be the next speaker of the house. [insert clip] not a single doubt in his mind. On what mandate, sir? Leave it to a mediocre man to be deeply, unwaveringly confident in the fact that he’ll hold on to his job despite being very publicly bad at it for a literal decade at this point. And then of course there’s the very important point that he is NOT what the American public wants. A recent poll found that he has a 13% approval rating among voters. 13%! That’s worse than Trump. So Democrats show up in record numbers and vote that they clearly want a change and with his 13% approval rating he’s walking around with THAT level of self-assured cockiness? You HATE to see it. He has proven, time and time again, that he does not know how to communicate a vision with the American people and that he does not know how to communicate wins and successes to the American people. For example, when Zohran Mamdani hired a bunch of people to patch a bunch of potholes on New York city streets, you better bet his media team was out there screaming on every social media platform telling the world the exact number of potholes that they filled. A real, concrete (heh, literally) thing that he did to directly benefit his constituents in ways they could see and feel and then telling them I DID THAT. That is a necessary piece of leading a party and Democratic leadership, with Schumer at the helm, has proven completely incapable of reading what Americans care about, delivering on that, and then communicating on the policy wins they do achieve. It’s not like there’s a ton of them, they’re not SWAMPED with wins to be communicating to the American people. And even the few positive things that did happen during the Biden administration, Lina Khan’s work at the FTC for example, they fucking dropped the ball on championing the things they were doing well. The man is a fucking communications train wreck. THAT’S who’s in charge with messaging and relationship building for the Democratic party in the Senate? Hello?
And then of course you have his corporate PAC money record, the hundreds of thousands of dollars he’s accepted from AIPAC and the Israel lobby over the years, the self-avowed dedication he has said he has towards Israel and Israeli influence in the United States, the fact that he seems to put Israel over the needs or desires of the American people. He has voted against resolutions to block military aid to Israel, voting instead to keep sending money and weapons to help the Israelis commit genocide in Gaza. Schumer has made it clear through his long illustrious career that he is incredibly susceptible to manipulation via campaign contributions and PAC dollars. He does not have the character to handle the level of power he has been wielding.
And to top it all off, he has presented zero concrete plan for how he will lead the senate and its new Democratic majority. You and I have known since like grade school student council days that you have to at least give the people some idea of what you want to do if you want a leadership position. He has offered zero policy proposals, no vision, no step by step plan, no goals, NOTHING to indicate that he has any idea how to actually use this new power to benefit the American people that gave Democrats this majority in Congress. And as Senate majority leader it is his LITERAL JOB to set the short and long term policy agenda for the Senate. He does nothing other than dole out completely meaningless platitudes that are uninspiring and present nothing to benefit the American people. Yes queen, give us nothing. That is the only sure thing we can expect from him if he is elected senate majority leader: more of absolutely nothing.
And guess what Jeffries is no better. Reminder that if chosen as speaker of the house Jeffries would be SECOND in the line of presidential succession, right behind JD Vance. Many of my qualms with Jeffries are similar to my issues with Schumer. Jeffries has been the house minority leader since 2022, so he’s had less time than Schumer to prove his incompetence and yet has still managed to do so with flying colors. His approval rating among voters is 17%. Reminder Trump’s hovers around 33%. This man is deeply unpopular among the very people he claims now gave him a mandate to continue doing nothing. Which is largely what he’s done since gaining his position in 2022. He has proven, just like Schumer, to be incapable of leading an opposition party. To be incapable of standing up to fascism in a moment when we need it most. He claims to care about affordability and lowering costs for Americans but when asked about medicare for all, a broadly popular proposal in America, he said he does not support it. When confronted with other progressive policies aimed at affordability, which he claims to care about, he has said that he doesn’t see the current struggle in America as being between the rich and the poor, but instead mainly based on race. And I understand he’s basing that off his experience as a black man in America but buddy. What do you think is exacerbating the problem?? It’s rich racists. Hello? Intersectionality? Hello? So he wants to lower costs for Americans and what does he do? He meets with gifter in chief JARED KUSHNER. The man who has swindled his way into a MASSIVE fortune off the back of full blown blatant corruption and self dealing. The fascist dictator’s SON IN LAW? Socialists are bad and scary they can’t possibly have the answers I know who will JARED KUSHNER. He met privately with Kushner earlier this year, saying later that in the meeting he “discussed affordability” with Kushner. The mere fact that he’s willing to have private closed door meetings with that man indicates a lack of judgment completely unbecoming of the leader of an opposition party, but the fact that he claimed Kushner could help him with an affordability agenda indicates he has no clue and no interest in actually working on affordability for the American people. That’s not reaching across the aisle that’s going into the venomous snake pit and saying hey I’d like to discuss with you how to end venomous snake bites, hello? In 2021 Jeffries told the Atlantic quote “there will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism.” But bending the knee to far right extremism is fully fair game for him. He is not. Fit. to lead the opposition. But this is of course par for the course because, like Schumer, Jeffries has proven just as susceptible to manipulation and bribery via campaign contributions, having accepted over 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS from AIPAC and the Israel lobby, not to mention numerous other corporate PACs. He has repeatedly voted along with Republicans to continue funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He is perfectly willing to cozy up to billionaires and take their money and completely unwilling to actually give a shit about what the American people want or fight for what we want. It makes him a perfect shill for the 1%, so it makes sense that he’d be unwilling to cite wealth inequality as the primary driver of the ills of society, because the people who cut his checks would get vewy vewy angwy.
Just like Schumer, he claims to want to lower costs for Americans, to make life more affordable to Americans, and he has given zero indication how he plans to do that. He has given us nothing more than platitudes that mean nothing. I can’t critique his policy proposals because he has offered none. Nothing concrete. Absolutely zero vision. We need leadership with vision. Jeffries and Schumer have sat on their hands for the last 10 years and when they weren’t they were simply pointing at Trump and saying remember how he’s bad. Vote for us. THAT is not visionary, that is not leadership, that is an abrogation of their jobs and they should be fired from their roles for poor performance. Jeffries has already made it clear how out of touch he is with the American people by promising that investigations and holding the Trump administration accountable would not be his priority as leader of the House. Are you kidding? He thinks that’s not what the American people want. That by itself is enough to tell me he hasn’t spoken to the American people at all. The people want accountability. They want affordability too. But when the people in power in our government break the law, the people want to see them held to account. The fact that he doesn’t think that and is willing to boldly declare that’s not what the people want is all the evidence I need that he has no idea what Americans need or want and is completely out of line with what we all just voted for last week. He has no vision, he has no leadership skills, and he sure as shit has zero charisma, uniqueness, nerve, or talent. Watching him speak is genuinely like watching a kid in middle school give a presentation he barely prepared for. These men are truly the epitome of mediocrity in every sense of the word. They have proven themselves incapable of meeting this moment and they are unfit for the leadership positions they both seem to think will be handed to them on silver platters.
Okay so, how does replacing them work? Like I mentioned, while the vote for house speaker does happen on the floor, the choice of who to nominate in the first place is a closed door affair. Senate majority leader voting is also completely closed door. In the house, the first order of business necessary to perform in order to constitute the chamber and begin doing any business is to select a speaker. They cannot start any other work until they do so. This has the potential to give progressives some leverage, to say nothing is getting done until we are heard.
So ahead of January, they will need to pick a nominee that will get enough votes to be able to get started right away. And Senators will be picking their senate majority leader in December by secret ballot. On the Senate side, MANY of the newly elected Democratic senators in the incoming class have indicated they will not support Schumer as leader, including Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota, Troy Jackson of Maine, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Adam Hamilton of Kansas, Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, and Juliana Stratton of Illinois. Others like Jon Ossoff and James Talarico have avoided committing to Schumer. This indicates that there’s a LOT of doubt and opposition to Schumer’s leadership and much of that is coming from the people sent to carry out the peoples’ mandate in Congress in this historic win last week. The fact that Schumer and Jeffries seem so cocky and seem to think this win was THEIRS is just posturing and not based in fact. As for who to replace Schumer, El-Sayed and others have called on progressive senator Chris Van Hollen to take up the role, and I think he would be a great pick. Unfortunately the reality is that most people who take the role of Senate Majority Leader do not go on to run for president, that role is kind of where you stay for as long as you can once you get it. Because Van Hollen is eyeing a potential presidential bid in 2028, he has indicated he’s not interested in the majority leader position. I personally think Elizabeth Warren would be a great pick, I think she’s shown vision especially when it comes to holding big business to account and pushing for affordable healthcare and anti-trust laws. She’s not the most progressive and she comes with some baggage but I think the goal here isn’t to get THE most progressive person in the position. Remember the role of the majority leader is to bring together the Democratic party and that requires being willing to sit at the table and compromise with the more centrist Senators, but I think Warren would show a willingness to include progressives in that conversation more holistically unlike Schumer who writes of that entire wing of the party despite its increasing influence and popularity among the public. Elissa Slotkin over the weekend declined to rule out the potential of her in the majority leader role. Again, not the most progressive but she did eventually back El-Sayed, she’s younger and would bring in a younger generation to positions of power within the party and she’s from the midwest and therefore doesn’t treat 80% of the country as “flyover country.”
As for Jeffries’ replacement, I mean for fucks sake there’s so many to choose from like that’s the thing it’s not like we’re stuck with either of these two but especially in the house with literally hundreds of representatives to choose from there are so many better alternatives. AOC has already said she’s not interested, she’s also “kicking the tires” as they say on a presidential run in 2028, but other names that come to mind for me include Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, who is smart, has vision, has taken zero money from Israel, and MUCH more deserves the title of first black leader of either party in either chamber than fucking Hakeem Jeffries. Other names that come to mind are Jamie Raskin of Maryland or Ro Khanna of California or Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
The point is, the selection of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer as leaders of the new Democratic majority in congress is NOT a foregone conclusion. They want you to think that it is, to deflect attention away from how fucking awful they are at their jobs, to make you pay attention to something else, and of course there are other bigger battles to fight once the new Congress takes over in January, and we will also be fighting those battles. Something that Jeffries seems to fundamentally misunderstand is that you can hold people accountable and also push for better policy initiatives and we need leaders who can walk and chew gum at the same time. The first order of business is picking the right leadership, and then holding that leadership accountable. We need leadership that is willing to listen to ALL the stakeholders at the table.
And that’s the point here–I think this outpouring of calls for Schumer and Jeffries to be replaced is being characterized by a lot of people and commentators and mainstream media as just typical democratic or left wing infighting, but that’s not what this is. And reducing it to that reinforces the narrative that people on the left are incompetent. The reality is that there is a growing wing of Democratic party voters that is increasingly progressive. Progressive policies, when presented to the American people in their bare form, not in propagandized terms meant to scare the people away from “socialism,” are incredibly popular. The United States exists in a two-party system which means that if you want your voice heard within the government you have to choose either Republicans or Democrats. It would be cool if that weren’t the case but that’s the only way the system as it is currently structured can function, I’ve made videos about why that is in the past, but everyone every elected official, even ones that are officially “independent” like Berne Sanders, fall within one of the two parties. Which means that whichever party is in power must represent the will of over half the electorate. The United States is huge, it’s incredibly diverse, it’s spread across thousands of miles of various types of land with various needs and industries, it is an incredibly difficult country to create any level of cohesion in. But the job of politicians and lawmakers is to create enough consensus to get bills passed, at least in theory. The job of policy-making of lawmaking is compromise is coalition building. And for FAR too long, the centrists and moderates within the Democratic party have been incredibly willing to do the work of compromise and coalition building by “reaching across the aisle” and compromising with fascists while completely ignoring the leftmost flanks of their own party. So this isn’t “infighting” this is the very act of politicking in motion. This is the new ruling party choosing among themselves who they wish to lead them and what policy they wish to push for. And it is an increasingly progressive party which requires hard discussions around focus and priorities. That those hard discussions are happening doesn’t mean hopeless “infighting” it means that people are being given a seat at the table and their voices are being heard. It just matters now that those voices get heard by the correct people, namely the members of the incoming Congress who will be in the coming weeks deciding who will lead their policy agenda in the face of a fascist threat to the fabric of our democracy. And the mandate from the people sends a clear message that the people want change. And the people are sending a clear message that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are not fit to lead. And this is a moment, one of many to come, in which the progressive arm of the party has to use their leverage to be heard and to get a seat at the table that has for so long been denied to anyone left of center. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are certain that their leadership roles will be handed to them on a silver platter. Our job is to make them doubt it. Because with that doubt comes a little sweat beneath the collar and a willingness to compromise, to hear people out, to build coalitions WITHIN the democratic party with progressive electeds as opposed to across the aisle with fascists. Because whether or not Jeffries and Schumer get the leadership positions they’re vying for, they need to have their feet held to the fire and they need to know that progressive voices are going to make their lives fucking hell if they don’t listen and compromise.
Today, Monday November 9th, is the first day that Congress is back in session after the election and therefore their first chance to talk in person about the future of the party leadership. Staffers have reported they’re getting hundreds of calls every single day about this issue, far and above any other cause, and that matters. That forces our elected officials to pay attention. And that effort has to be sustained. In calls, in emails, in letters, for the next few weeks. They need to know we’re watching and we’re keeping a tally on them and we will notice if they do nothing, if they remain silent. We can’t know how they vote in secret ballots, but we can push them to publicly denounce current leadership, we can push them to take a stand because to do otherwise would be incredibly unpopular. So I encourage you to call your Democratic representatives and senators–including the new ones who will be starting in January, to urge them to vote in new leadership that is in touch with what the American people actually want. Indivisible has a really handy script and form that will connect you directly with the right person, I’ll link that in the description. You can also send emails through Indivisible’s script as well. They just have one for the Senate, I’m not sure why they don’t have one for the house but you can use a similar script for the house as well. Or come up with your own if you’re too nervous to call without one. The reality is that saying the exact right thing doesn’t really matter so long as you make it clear that you are their constituent by saying WHERE you live and making it clear you oppose Schumer and Jeffries in power. In fact hell let me just call my reps right now to show you how easy it is. I personally keep their numbers saved in my phone so I can just call em up and be like Ilhan girl you’ll never guess what I have to say to you today. The more you do it the more casual and easy it will become, as it should be. And there’s also a petition going around on change dot org which you can sign but it doesn’t have the same impact as calling. In order of importance it should be calling, emailing, mailing letters, then signing petitions. Do em all if you want but if you only do one thing it should be calling. Here we go.
[insert call].
See that took me, what? 30 seconds? Easy. It’s not earth shattering and change is always slow and painful and less exciting than you want it to be, but that’s how life works. You can either throw your hands up, bemoan it and give up, or you can roll your sleeves up and get to work. And yes we celebrate victories but then we get back to work. This fight over the leadership of the party is what we’re doing now until that leadership is picked, then we continue on to the next fight. I hope that the momentum from last week carries you forward for the many fights to come.
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