Abolish the United States Senate. Replace the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and a judiciary chosen by Congress and answerable to Congress. That is not a caricature of the left. It is a platform the Democratic Socialists of America published on July 14, it is on their website, and they are proud of it. On Sunday, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries was handed the chance to throw it overboard. He said he does not support that agenda, then said the members elected on it will be part of his caucus, because it is going to be a broad caucus.
Jenny Beth Martin opens the hour by putting that platform next to the Constitution and walking it item by item: abolishing the Senate takes out Article One, Section Three; replacing the presidency takes out Article Two. Then come proportional representation, ranked choice voting, a thirty-two-hour work week at full pay, amnesty regardless of status, and aggressive wealth taxes. Rod Martin's answer is that every one of those items lands in the same place, a system dominated by the big city machines at the expense of the rest of the country, and what he calls an elective dictatorship the founders would never have countenanced. Conn Carroll's answer is simpler and harder: the establishment has nothing to fight it with.
Also this hour. Florida votes, with an open governor's race, the special election for the Senate seat Marco Rubio left, and more than 1,200 offices down the ballot. Conn Carroll on South Carolina going first and the three lanes forming in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. Four Democratic Senate nominees who will not back Chuck Schumer. Georgia getting loud, with the president in Marietta on Senator Jon Ossoff and Ossoff answering back in Atlanta, plus the Atlanta Jewish Times publisher's open letter. Conn Carroll on autonomy conservatives versus common good conservatives, and on the New York Times piece about the end of the Boy Scouts of America. Rod Martin on closing the undersea gap, on energy, and on why we cannot keep answering thirty-five-thousand-dollar drones with million-dollar missiles.
Guests: Rod Martin, founder and chief executive of Martin Capital and author of The Rod Martin Report; Conn Carroll, commentary editor at the Washington Examiner and author of Sex and the Citizen; and Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action.
Your job for today is in the episode: pick one candidate, go to that campaign's website, and sign up to make calls, knock doors, or donate. Election Day is seventy-seven days out. To reach your senators and your representative, the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.
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00:00 — Abolish the Senate: They Wrote It Down
01:59 — Florida Votes: More Than 1,200 Offices on the Ballot
04:01 — Iran's Negotiating Window Closes
04:39 — Four Democratic Nominees Refuse Chuck Schumer
04:57 — Meet the Panel
05:52 — The Last Hours of a Primary
07:33 — Rod Martin on Florida and Byron Donalds
10:46 — South Carolina and the 2028 Democratic Lanes
15:14 — The Platform Next to the Constitution
17:37 — What Hakeem Jeffries Actually Said
18:13 — A Management Problem He Cannot Solve
21:36 — Who Is Really Leading the Democratic Party
23:06 — Georgia Gets Loud: Trump and Jon Ossoff
29:34 — Autonomy Conservatives and Common Good Conservatives
33:32 — Closing the Undersea Gap
38:42 — The New York Times and the End of the Boy Scouts
44:26 — Everything Runs on Energy
49:20 — Rapid Fire: The Strait of Hormuz
55:45 — Six Hundred Drones Over Moscow
1:01:24 — Chinese Components and Learning From Ukraine
1:04:50 — Your Job for Today
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