{"id":37059,"date":"2025-03-26T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/for-the-sake-of-us-democracy-its-time-for-chuck-schumer-to-step-down-leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:15:42","slug":"for-the-sake-of-us-democracy-its-time-for-chuck-schumer-to-step-down-leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/for-the-sake-of-us-democracy-its-time-for-chuck-schumer-to-step-down-leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin\/","title":{"rendered":"For the sake of US democracy, it\u2019s time for Chuck Schumer to step down | Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem isn\u2019t just Schumer\u2019s strategy \u2013 it\u2019s his perception of reality. He is conducting business as usual while the US burns<\/p>\n<p>In just two months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has launched an assault of staggering ferocity on America\u2019s values, laws and people. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democratic<\/a> party faces a choice: does it lead the fight against authoritarianism and billionaire capture, or does it hunker down and hope the president implodes on his own? After last week\u2019s legislative debacle, we\u2019ve concluded that if Democrats want to fight, they need to replace the Senate minority leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/chuck-schumer\">Chuck Schumer<\/a>, with someone who understands the stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Since November, our grassroots movement, Indivisible \u2013 led by regular people organizing nationwide \u2013 has been fighting back. Indivisible groups have pushed members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a>, attended town halls, protested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>, and organized locally against Trump\u2019s agenda. Everywhere we go \u2013 red, blue or purple \u2013 people ask why Democratic leadership doesn\u2019t share their urgency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/26\/chuck-schumer-step-down-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem isn\u2019t just Schumer\u2019s strategy \u2013 it\u2019s his perception of reality. He is conducting business as usual while the US burns In just two months, Donald Trump has launched an assault of staggering ferocity on America\u2019s values, laws and people. The Democratic party faces a choice: does it lead the fight against authoritarianism and &#8230; <a title=\"For the sake of US democracy, it\u2019s time for Chuck Schumer to step down | Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/for-the-sake-of-us-democracy-its-time-for-chuck-schumer-to-step-down-leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about For the sake of US democracy, it\u2019s time for Chuck Schumer to step down | Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}