Jenny Beth Martin pulls the document up on screen and walks it against the Constitution, line by line. Abolishing the United States Senate takes out Article One, Section Three. Replacing the presidency takes out Article Two. Then the rest of it: expand the House, proportional representation, ranked choice voting, a thirty-two-hour work week at full pay, an end to detention and deportations, amnesty regardless of status, aggressive wealth taxes. Her point about ranked choice voting is the practical one, that most places which adopted it went to work trying to get rid of it.
Conn Carroll's read is that this is simply where the party is going, and the reason is not complicated. The socialists say the middle has no ideas, and he says they are right. The establishment has nothing to fight it with, so a well thought out agenda that its holders feel strongly about wins by default. He points to the convention in Texas the weekend before, where a body that had previously called only for reforming Immigration and Customs Enforcement flipped to abolishing it, with members saying flatly that this is what their constituents want back home.
Then the clip everyone should watch for themselves. Hakeem Jeffries: he does not support the agenda as articulated by the Democratic Socialists of America, and the individual members elected on it in November will be part of the House Democratic caucus, because it is going to be a broad caucus with progressives, New Democrats, and Blue Dogs.
Rod Martin's answer runs in two parts. First, the management problem, which he thinks is real whether the party ends up in the majority or the minority. He cites Charlie Cook's latest numbers, which have the Democrats needing two thirds of the truly competitive House races just to assemble a razor-thin majority, and says he does not see that happening. Second, the part that matters longer. Abdul El-Sayed, Francesca Hong, Zohran Mamdani will tell you directly that they want to nationalize the means of production. Proportional representation, ranked choice voting, abolishing the Senate, abolishing the Electoral College: in every single case what you end up with is a system run by the big city machines at the expense of the rest of the country. Once that is done you can pack the Supreme Court and get away with anything you want in what amounts to a parliamentary system. His phrase for it is an elective dictatorship, and even if it has worked for the British most of the time, it is not what America's founders wanted for us.
Jenny Beth Martin closes on the polling she wrote an op-ed about, where a large share of Americans asked to name something good about socialism either say nothing or cannot come up with anything at all. Most Americans, she says, may not like who is running the White House or the Senate at any given moment, but they like being able to vote for them.
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Watch the full hour at jennybethshow.com. More at teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — The Platform Next to the Constitution
00:16 — Abolish the Senate, Replace the President
00:38 — Ranked Choice Voting and a Thirty-Two-Hour Work Week
01:16 — There Is No Sunlight Between the Two Wings
01:41 — Conn Carroll: The Establishment Has No Ideas
02:23 — What Hakeem Jeffries Actually Said
02:59 — Rod Martin: A Management Problem Ahead of Him
03:35 — Charlie Cook's Numbers and a Razor-Thin Majority
04:17 — They Will Tell You They Want to Nationalize Production
05:02 — An Elective Dictatorship Run by the Big City Machines
05:31 — What Americans Actually Say About Socialism
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