Ethan Embry, the actor set to appear in Scream 7, fired off a string of posts on BlueSky last Friday demanding that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer be stripped of his leadership role. The reason, in Embry's words: Democrats are getting destroyed on messaging, and Schumer is dead weight.
Embry posted on the platform on March 20:
"Dems only chance of taking the senate relies on the removal of Schumer."
He didn't stop there. Breitbart reported that over the next hour, Embry unloaded a broader critique of his own party's strategy, arguing that Republicans have seized control of the public conversation while Democrats stand around watching it happen.
What makes Embry's posts interesting isn't the Hollywood pedigree. It's that a committed progressive is saying out loud what most Democratic strategists will only whisper into their drinks at fundraisers: the party's leadership is failing, and it's costing them.
In a follow-up post, Embry took aim at both parties but reserved his sharpest frustration for his own:
"Republicans refuse to implement simple constitutional requirements for law enforcement, and Dems are letting them control the public narrative."
He continued:
"We can't talk about the broken system without facing the severe flaws of 'our own' leadership."
That's a remarkable concession from someone who, last June, described the 78 million Americans who voted for President Trump as "78,000,000 fucking idiots." When you publicly hold the majority of the electorate in contempt and then wonder why your party can't win elections, the problem isn't hard to diagnose.
Embry's most revealing post came at 9:01 AM, when one of his left-wing followers apparently insisted that ICE is unpopular. Embry pushed back:
"Unfortunately that's not the public narrative as a whole. That's the one we are exposed to, but the dominant narrative being pushed and received and heard is that Dems refuse to fund ICE. The reasons are widespread dependent on severity of ideology, but this is not hitting the GOP."
Credit where it's due: that's a clearer analysis of the Democrats' immigration problem than anything Chuck Schumer has offered in months.
Democrats have spent years softening their language on illegal immigration, rebranding enforcement agencies as villains, and treating border security as a culture war prop rather than a governing responsibility. Then they act baffled when voters associate them with open borders.
The feedback loop is almost elegant in its dysfunction. Democratic leaders cater to progressive activists who dominate platforms like BlueSky.
Those activists live in ideological ecosystems where ICE is a four-letter word. The leaders internalize that energy as public opinion. Then they lose elections and blame the voters.
Embry, to his credit, recognizes the loop. He just can't escape it. The same post where he identifies Democrats' messaging failure still frames the core problem as Republicans controlling the narrative, as if the real issue is spin rather than substance. It never occurs to him that voters might actually support immigration enforcement on the merits.
The Schumer critique, specifically, lands in an interesting place. The Senate Minority Leader has become something of a non-entity in the current political landscape. He generates no momentum, commands no fear, and offers no compelling counter-vision. He is a placeholder in a moment that demands a combatant.
Schumer said nothing in response to Embry's posts. That silence is its own statement. The Democratic leader of the United States Senate was publicly called out as an anchor dragging his party down, and the best his operation could muster was nothing.
For conservatives, the Schumer question is mostly academic. Whether Democrats replace him with someone sharper or leave him in place, the underlying problem remains: the party has no credible position on the issues that matter most to voters.
You can swap the messenger all you want. If the message is still that illegal immigrants deserve sanctuary, that ICE is the enemy, and that enforcement is cruelty, the result won't change.
Embry represents a fascinating specimen: the progressive who can see the strategic failure but not the philosophical one. He understands that Democrats are losing the narrative. He cannot bring himself to ask whether they're losing it because they're wrong.
Last June, he looked at 78 million of his fellow citizens and saw idiots. On Friday, he looked at his party's leadership and saw incompetence.
Both observations flow from the same assumption: that the progressive worldview is self-evidently correct, and any deviation from it reflects either stupidity or poor management.
That assumption is why Democrats keep losing. Not Chuck Schumer. Not bad messaging. Not insufficient BlueSky engagement. The voters heard the Democratic pitch. They rejected it. President Trump's victory in 2024 was not a communications failure for the left. It was a verdict.
Embry wants new leadership. What his party actually needs is new ideas. But admitting that would require reconsidering whether 78 million Americans might have had a point, and that's a conversation BlueSky will never host.
