Right. And law enforcement unions have not complained about poorly trained recruits. That seems like a flag.

2) I think the Senate Minority Leader has the power to cut off DNC support for Dem incumbents reelection campaigns. I think the SML has the power to take the mic in front of TV cameras and denounce the selfish anti-Dems who caved.

Schumer won't bc he's a collaborator, but he could have.

1) (cont.)

The time to replace Schumer wasn't this past weekend. It was in spring when he concocted the idea that if Dems let ppl suffer, that was good for the Democratic Party.

There is no one in the Senate today I would trust w leadership, but a new leader could at least repudiate this.

1) Schumer announced in spring during that CR fight that his plan was to capitulate... this in the hope that voters would blame the GOP in 2026 and thus Dem senators would benefit.

My minimum standards are:
Don't plan to submit to fascism
Don't put yr career b4 the ppl's welfare

You can't have people in leadership positions who stab you in the back and then turn around and say oh well, let's move on and do nothing about that, really you're the problem for complaining about it.

If you actually want a more united front, the most obvious choice is replace Schumer as leader because he has zero credibility and people rightly loathe him. But at a bare minimum if you want to at least make some gesture, replace Durbin as whip. He's retiring anyway. There would be no downside.

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