Opinion | Nancy Pelosi made room for a new tour. Chuck Schumer should follow her leadership.

It is not easy to give up a good appearance. I would know: In October I resigned from my job as an editor of the Los Angeles Times after the owner of the newspaper had blocked the editorial committee I led to the president of the support of Kamala Harris. Leaving was a final decision, but I felt that too much was at stake to stay and be silent – even in a job I loved. The only way for me to comment was to step down.

I expected that I would get some attention, but I was unprepared and a bit embarrassed from the support of support from strangers across the country who praised me as a kind of hero. I was grateful for the many friendly words, but I had just quit a job and hadn’t saved a baby from a burning building. The answer showed me that people are desperate according to examples of principle and victims.

I also realized that the resignation from a leadership role is not a surrender. Sometimes it’s just the right thing. That brings me to the chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer.

This month after he had agreed to the Republicans’ course about a draft law on government expenditure-to a house democrat, which was voted against it, including many in his party, including his long-standing ally, the representative Nancy Pelosi, and the rising star representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The frustration aimed at Mr. Schumer, New York’s senior senator, including remarkable voices in the comment – he is almost lost Jon Stewart – indicates that this is more than one voice. It could be the last straw for Democrats that have been annoyed by President Trump and Elon Musk’s chaos by her party’s stalling reaction. You are fed up with your leaders to bring a knife into a nuclear war.

Overall, the public is not much happier: A survey published by FOX News last week showed that 56 percent of the voters believe that “the task that the Trump administration does through the identification and reduction of wasteful government spending is” poor “or” only fair “and 65 percent say that they are” extremely “or” very “affected that” not enough thoughts and planning in the expenses of the government. But Democrats managed to stay less popular than Mr. Trump: An NBC news survey in March showed that Mr. Trump had an approval rate of 47 percent. And the Democrats? They are a whopping 20 percentage points behind it.

As a pressure for him to withdraw from leadership results, Mr. Schumer said this week that he “does not resign”. Maybe he feels a bit as President Joe Biden did last summer. It is not too late for Mr. Schumer to be aside. It should take into account the advantages of a proactive, principle.

The resignation from the tour could be an act of selflessness at a time when it is poor in Washington. Mr. Schumer was able to acknowledge millions of affected Americans by recognizing that the political landscape has changed so deeply in recent weeks that it is time for a new approach.

In a certain level, he has to understand that the passive strategy that he recently set in an interview with the New York Times magazine – time until Mr. Trump’s popularity falls under 40 percent – does not calm the Americans that it was not even free and fair elections next time.

So far, Mr. Schumer has grown and it is understandable; Too often in our history, managers cling to power, even after it is clear that their time has passed or they are ineffective.

“The Strength of the Tradition of Loyalty and Keeping One Conscience on a Short Leash Becomes Most Evident During Great Public Crises,“ Thomas Franck and Edward Weisband Wrote in 1974 For the Times in An Article About The Meaning of Protest Resignations, noting that “Not one member of the Kennedy Team in Protest Over the Bay of Pigs Fiasco, ”Nor“ Did the Moral Issues Of The Vietnam War Drive Any of the Johnson Cabinet ”to give up in public protest.

Of course, the pork bay and the Vietnam War were very different situations than what we have today. The common denominator is that America is exposed to a real crisis that requires more than just painting.

When the rulers resign, it is often the result of the dismissal of something embarrassing – we will see what happens to Defense Minister Pete Hegseth after reporting that he has discussed a military strike in a signal group chat – or unethical. Or from Pique, like Kevin McCarthy, who left his congress seat in 2023 after his GOP colleagues had unloaded him as the spokesman for the house.

Or they stick out out of stubbornness. Mr. Biden clearly waited too long to get aside. Had the election in 2024, would he have exchanged himself before the primaries and would have more time to enter the field for other candidates? We will never know.

Mr. Schumer would do it better if he had John Boehner, the Republican House spokesman who gave up his hammer in 2015, instead of leaving his caucus a lengthy leadership. Or even Mr. Schumer’s former compared to the number, Mitch McConnell, who stays in the Senate, but announced last year that he resigned as a Republican leader, and recognize that age, temperament and ideology made it a bad claim to lead an increasingly future Trumpist party.

The resignation from the leadership would not mean that Mr. Schumer has to expire his ability to regain democrats. Ms. Pelosi, the first woman who ever acted as a spokeswoman for the house, did not give up her status as a civil woman when she resigned from the democratic leadership in 2023 and took the way for the representative hakeem Jeffries to take over. This is because she has gone honorably and on her own conditions.

Mr. Schumer recently argued in a Times opinions that his decision to vote for the expenditure law was only poor options. Give him recognition for offering an explanation. For many, however, his decision reflects a way to do business that does not correspond to the moment.

He would ask him if Mr. Schumer put an example of his party and the nation by stepping down and making room for new leadership instead of sticking to power.

Mariel Garza was the editor of the Los Angeles Times. She resigned in 2024 and worked on a book about basic stocks in dangerous times.

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