Have you watched the recent viral video of Chuck Schumer shouting that he wants to change the world? Last weekend, after networks called the presidential election for Joe Biden, the Democrats’ Senate leader took to the street to celebrate with a noisy crowd.

His brief utterances at the gathering had the usual hollow, awkward quality that his attempts at stirring rhetoric usually do. His tone rises as though to conclude the peroration of a triumphant speech, but it falls flat. He is no Pericles. His actual words were dramatic, though. “Now we take Georgia, then we change the world,” he declared, as though he were Gen. Sherman marching on Atlanta. Not realizing the regional resonance of “taking Georgia” but noticing that he was on camera, he put on his mask, pumped his fist, and boomed, “Now, we take Georgia, then we change Americaaaa!”