Opinion | Schumer and Senate Democrats had two bad choices. Did they pick right?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Jon Hochschartner, Granby, Connecticut The ranks are growing Perry Bacon Jr.'s March 17 online column, "These six Democrats are showing the party how to resist Trump 2.0," left out two very important Democratic stalwarts and leaders: Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
50% : It's primary time After Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) announced his intention to help break a potential filibuster of the Republican spending bill, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to praise his old friend: "Congratulations to Chuck Schumer for doing the right thing," he wrote.
48% : Congressional Republicans have also seized co-ownership of the effects of the president's and the U.S. DOGE Service's missteps on federal personnel policy.
47% : From a partisan standpoint, congressional Republicans and Trump now own the results.
45% : There's no way to blame anyone but Trump for his tariffs.
43% : At least as consolation, we have the legions of lawyers who are working feverishly to push back against this ongoing attack on the federal government, and who will try to convince Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Amy Coney Barrett to join a Supreme Court majority that would provide a firm legal foundation for impeaching -- and this time convicting -- Trump. Steven Seeche, Cambridge, Massachusetts
39% : They should be primaried by Democrats willing to take the fight to Republicans who are either enabling or actively seeking to allow Trump to rule like an authoritarian.
38% : There have been many of them, and more than half of the public now feels Trump and Musk have overstepped their abilities to downsize government in a rational manner.
34% : Trump shut down so much of the government in his first 60 days that a formal shutdown would not, in and of itself, provoke the economic calamity that we usually associate with such events.
33% : At the risk of surrendering independent thought to negative polarization, if Trump is praising the actions of a nominal opposition leader, that leader has almost certainly failed at doing their job.
22% : Charles E. Schumer's failure to prepare his team for battle is nothing less than political malpractice.
18% : But most of all, I am appalled that the half of the country that voted against President Donald Trump is not up in arms watching the Democratic leadership throw away the only power they held in the short term to hold Trump to account: the filibuster.

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