This is not a fantasy. This is Senate procedure.
The Majority Leader is elected by the Republican conference. That means 27 Republican senators can force a leadership vote and elect someone new right now. No election required. No Democratic votes needed. No waiting until 2026. 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟳 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.
Five senators formally put a meeting on the conference agenda. Force the vote. The majority elects a new leader. Get it done.
This is exactly how Mitch McConnell was pushed out. Internal conference pressure made it clear he no longer had the votes. He stepped aside. The mechanism is real, and it has worked before.
Why does it matter right now? Because Thune is blocking recess appointments that every modern president has used. Blocking the SAVE Act with 84% public support. Blocking the talking filibuster that would end the DHS shutdown. Calling the MAGA base paid...

John Thune. 64 years old. Nearly three decades in Washington. And right now, under his gavel, the Senate has become a graveyard for Trump-backed legislation that the House already delivered.
The American people voted for this agenda. House Republicans passed it. And Thune’s Senate has sat on it for over a year.
𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗽𝘁𝘀.
Rotting in the Senate for 430+ days: the SAVE Act — proof of citizenship to vote. The Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Border security bills. Energy bills. All passed the House. All dead on arrival in Thune’s chamber.
Hundreds more bills — the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, the Deporting Fraudsters Act — are sitting in Senate limbo, anywhere from 200 to 300+ days.
And now the biggest one: the SAVE America Act. Passed the House ...