In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer unleashed a threat against conservative Supreme Court justices in the wake of their decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade’s national protections for abortion. “You have unleashed the whirlwind and you will pay the price,” he roared. “You won’t know what will happen to you if you continue with these terrible decisions.”
Although Schumer’s bellicose words at the time contributed to an attempt on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s life, five years later it is not the men and women in robes who are suffering from a whirlwind, but Schumer himself, and one of his own making.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. speaks during a press conference. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
This week, Schumer is facing calls to resign from his leadership position from multiple Democrats in the House of Representatives, including Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and neo-centrist Rep. Ro Khana, D-Calif., after his chaotic actions during the government shutdown.
It is likely only a matter of time before similar calls for Schumer’s impeachment are echoed in the Senate.
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Ultimately, Christ had an easier forty days in the desert than Schumer during this shutdown, where he not only vowed that the Democrats would never back down, but that they were winning the battle politically, to the point of watching the Democrats capitulate without getting anything in return.
As former Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy noted, this was the “Seinfeld shutdown,” a shutdown over nothing, and Schumer was definitely George.
It’s telling that Chuck himself didn’t sign off on the deal to open the government, pay out SNAP benefits, and unleash our airports, which only makes him look weaker because he can’t control his caucus.
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Schumer is now facing the first real crisis of his five decades in politics, and it appears he doesn’t know what’s hit him.
The tricky thing in Washington, DC and the Empire State is that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will, one way or another, take Schumer’s Senate seat in 2028, just as she took Rep.’s seat seven years ago. Joe Crowley into the House of Representatives.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol about member safety following the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Thursday, September 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
AOC isn’t particularly shy about it, saying this week, “We have several Senate primaries this cycle. I know I’m being asked about New York, [but] that’s years from now. I have to remind my own voters because they think this election is this year.”
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This is far from being said: “Chuck is doing a great job and I have no plans to run against him.”
During the recent New York City mayoral race, in which AOC was Democrat-socialist Zohran Mamdani’s main surrogate, Schumer, even on Election Day itself, courageously refused to reveal whether he had voted for Zany Zohran.
It was actually quite astonishing: Schumer is the highest-ranking elected Democrat in the United States of America, and he decided not to weigh in on whether his party should embrace communism.
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Schumer couldn’t reject Mamdani because he and his ilk are clearly the future of the party, but he couldn’t embrace him because his pro-capitalism and pro-Israel donors won’t have him.
Schumer wasn’t on the fence in the mayoral race, he was impaled on it.
At this point, Schumer is, fair or not, the avatar of the old Democratic Party establishment that shuffled off stage along with former President Joe Biden. He is the political version of the Washington Generals, being dunked over and over again by the more talented socialist Globetrotters.
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In fact, this whirlwind Schumer has reaped is entirely his own fault. He could have shown courage at any time, acted like an adult and worked in good faith with Republicans and the Trump administration. Instead, he decided to curse TikTok just like the radical kids who want his job.
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. (Getty Images/Reuters)
It was Schumer who helped oust former Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin for opposing the party’s push to overturn the filibuster in 2021. Where did he think his support would come from once he kicked out the moderates?
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Ultimately, Schumer’s career will be a cautionary tale in which he will lack the courage to rein in the radical elements in his caucus and party. Instead, he opened the door to them and hastened his own banishment from power.
Chuck Schumer has reaped the whirlwind well, and in the very short term, he will most likely pay the price.
