Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s standing with voters has cratered to historic lows, and hardworking Americans are noticing. New polls show his favorability sinking into the low 30s in New York, a dramatic fall from the days when he was broadly respected across the state. Voters are rightly angry that a career politician who once had broad appeal now carries the baggage of failed leadership and broken promises.
The collapse in Schumer’s popularity isn’t mysterious — it’s the result of a pattern of poor judgment and political hedging that has left his own party furious. Progressive Democrats publicly pressured him to step down after he embraced a Republican-crafted funding measure that many saw as surrendering to the other side. When leadership refuses to stand for principle, rank-and-file citizens and elected officials lose faith fast.
Conservative voices and sensible independents alike see that a man who negotiates away leverage and then blames others doesn’t deserve to helm a minority party in the Senate. On Fox & Friends First, former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon rightly pointed to Schumer’s sagging numbers and asked why Democrats aren’t being held accountable by their own leaders. Americans don’t want more excuses — they want leaders who fight for them, not politicians who quietly cut deals that chip away at liberty and security.
At the same time, grassroots outrage is boiling over in our schools, where a video out of Michigan shows a top education official unable or unwilling to answer a simple question about how many genders exist. That viral moment captured what parents across the country fear: education bureaucrats prioritizing ideology over basic science and common sense. When those entrusted with our children’s instruction stumble on clear facts, citizens have every right to demand better from those who set curricula.
Tudor Dixon and other Republicans are right to connect the dots — radical curriculum changes and opaque education standards are happening while test scores fall and basic literacy collapses in many districts. The Michigan Board of Education pushed through updated health and gender-identity standards over parental objections, and conservatives see this as another example of elites imposing woke orthodoxy on local schools. Parents and taxpayers must reclaim control of their schools before another generation is lost to ideology disguised as policy.
This is a moment for conservatives to be unapologetic: demand accountability in Washington and in state capitals, and insist that public servants answer to the people who pay their salaries. Schumer’s plummeting favorability and the Michigan education fiasco are two sides of the same coin — an out-of-touch ruling class that has stopped serving the American people. Stand with parents, stand with voters, and stand for leaders who will put America’s future first rather than bow to the latest political fad.
