The Stack: Why the Founders Got It Right About the Senate
The Schumer Shutdown isn’t just a budget fight—it’s the symptom of a deeper constitutional breakdown. Todd argues that America’s political chaos stems from decades of erosion in the Founders’ framework, especially through the 17th Amendment, which stripped states of their voice in Washington. By handing Senate elections directly to the people, progressive reformers weakened federalism and turned senators into party loyalists instead of state representatives.
Todd unpacks how this single change helped the Radical Left weaponize government dysfunction, manipulate voters, and fuel gridlock like today’s shutdown. He also challenges conservatives to reclaim the moral and institutional strength that once held this republic together. When states lose their power, Washington wins—and the people pay the price.
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📝 Transcript: Why the Founders Got It Right About the Senate
The Todd Huff Show – October 28, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: All right, my friends, plenty to get to today. Day number twenty-eight of the Schumer. Shutdown. We’ve got gridlock. We’ve got turmoil. We’ve got all sorts of things out there that are created. By the way. Created by. The members of the extreme radical left who are content on causing as much harm for the average American as possible if they think it can give them a political advantage.
Todd Huff: I want to talk about this today. In fact, yesterday, if you missed my conversation with Micah Beckwith, lieutenant governor here in the state of Indiana, we talked about redistricting. In fact, I’ve known Micah — if you’ve listened to this program, you know that I’ve known Micah for, I don’t know, five or six years is my guess. He’s been a guest host on this program in the past. We met through Senator John Crane, who’s also a guest host here on the program when I am taking much-deserved time away from the microphone here.
Todd Huff: But known Micah for a bit. And we talked about redistricting. I didn’t know it at the time when he and I set this up. I knew it was getting close, but I didn’t know there was going to be an announcement yesterday that there would be a special session. At least I didn’t know that when I reached out to Micah. So we talked about that yesterday. That actually happened as he and I were on the phone with one another for the interview before the second segment. It was announced by Governor Braun that there would be a special session in which the state legislature was going to be considering redistricting.
Todd Huff: Now, I don’t want to make this Indiana-centric. What I do want to say is that this is important for the national fight that we have for the midterm elections. This is about — this is one way that we can, within the confines of the law and constitutional power — this is one way that conservative red states can fight back against the national chaos that’s been launched upon us, that’s been weaponized, and is being used for political purposes, that’s being waged by the radical leftists in control of Congress. Make no mistake — they, the radical left, are the ones responsible for this shutdown. They want it. They think it helps them.
Todd Huff: They want to stick with the narrative that says Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, and they can’t figure out how to keep the government open, when that, of course, as I’ve debunked countless times on here, it takes thirty seconds to debunk it. All you have to say is the Senate rule — what is it, Rule 22 or whatever — that says it takes a three-fifths supermajority to end debate in the Senate and to call a vote on a particular issue. Republicans don’t have sixty senators. They have fifty-three, and they don’t have enough votes. This is very simple. It’s very simple to understand. It’s not even an inch deep.
Todd Huff: But in this conversation with Micah yesterday, he mentioned something about the Seventeenth Amendment, which is something we’ve talked about on this program before as well. And it just got me to thinking as I was preparing for the program: what might this turmoil look like, or would we have this turmoil, if we still had the Seventeenth Amendment? I want to talk about this today because, listen — I think in today’s world, back before, I don’t know, social media, back before President Trump, back before everything was political and politics just dominates … politics dominates everything now.
Todd Huff: It’s not even just important to people, and people know that they have different ideas and they’re debating these things and trying to elect the people that are advancing what they think is politically best for this country and so forth. This is the survival of the constitutional republic, and I think everything, to some degree, is on the table here. And I’m going to tell you — I think, why not now? Just in general, I think now is as good a time as ever to say that the Seventeenth Amendment is a terrible amendment, and I want to go through that.
Todd Huff: And it’s relevant to this because I will tell you how the Seventeenth Amendment would help us avoid — if it was not ratified, if we didn’t have the Seventeenth Amendment — we wouldn’t be where we are today. The left wouldn’t be able to weaponize the government against people and cause havoc and turmoil like they do if we didn’t have the Seventeenth Amendment. Most people don’t even know what that means. I’ll get into that, my friends, in due course.
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Todd Huff: All right, let’s talk about this. Let’s talk about the turmoil that’s been created. We got day 28 of the government shutdown. I mentioned earlier — we know this, you know this. If you’ve listened to this program, you probably know this just from figuring it out on your own as well, because this isn’t complicated to figure out. Democrats have hijacked the process. Democrats have refused that the funding that was in place — that they voted for previously — on September 30, 2025, was unacceptable to the Democrats on October 1, 2025, the very next day, the day this shutdown began — midnight on October 1, 2025.
Todd Huff: And so the Democrats have been trying to use this to their political advantage. They’ve actually been out there saying — they’re on record saying — Chuck Schumer is on record saying that every day this goes on politically helps the Democrats. That’s what they think. That’s what their focus groups point to. In some respect it makes sense, because I think everybody knows the adults in the room are in the Republican Party.
Todd Huff: This is not a blanket endorsement of the Republican Party, but they’re not the childish instigators that we see coming from the extreme radical left, who of course find a home in today’s radically left Democrat Party. So people, I guess, recognize that the adults in the room are going to have to be the ones to solve the problem. What they don’t account for are the temper tantrums being thrown by the children — the children in the Democrat Party.
Todd Huff: Infantile, juvenile, just pure tantrums is what these things are. And they’re hoping to politically get an advantage off of this. They want to stir people into a frenzy. They want to cause them to hate Trump. They want to cause them to … again, whatever strategy they can get that gets people mad at something that they say, “We’ve got the solution to.” If you can get people to hate this country as founded, they don’t care. They’re happy to tear it down.
Todd Huff: They want to rebuild it into something that’s more socialistic, something that’s more consistent with the morally bankrupt worldview of Zoron Momdani, who, by the way, is on his way to becoming the mayor of the city of New York. And when he crashes and burns that city to the ground — metaphorically here — remember that we told you so. It’s coming, New Yorkers. It’s coming. It’s unfortunate that you are voting for your own demise, but that looks to be what the folks in New York City are going to be doing.
Todd Huff: This party is becoming increasingly radical, out of control. And they are going to get what they voted for here in short order. A lot of people cheer for this because they think that this is somehow going to cause people to realize, “Wow, these ideas really don’t work.”
Todd Huff: Bet me. That is not — there are going to be some excuse: Momdani didn’t have enough time, he didn’t have enough money, he realizes that the problems of New York City are deeper than he first realized. “You need to be a lifetime mayor to even begin to fix the problems there.”
Todd Huff: Believe me — if you’re committed to the ideology believe me, if you’re committed to the ideology, some people — listen — there is no changing some minds. No changing certain minds out there, my friends. They are committed to their ideology. It’s part of their identity. Admitting that they are wrong is something that is incredibly hard to do.
Todd Huff: Just think about it from your perspective, especially — how hard is it to admit when you’re wrong? How hard is it for me to admit when I’m wrong? Some of us are better at that than others, I guess, but it’s not something that humans take lightly because it’s eating the humble pie, so to speak. It’s not something we look forward to doing.
Todd Huff: And so when you build your whole life around a worldview and an ideology that’s built upon nothing but lies, deceit, propaganda — no one wants to admit this, but that’s what’s happening. It is collapsing everywhere, all around us, everywhere that it’s tried.
Todd Huff: And it has caused this country, specifically in our federal government — well, in other areas as well, Portland, Oregon, which of course was the topic of today’s Todd Talk with Antifa.
Todd Huff: What’s going on out there — people believe because they use the term “anti-fascists” that they’re fighting fascism, when in reality these people are the fascists. Trump is exactly right to declare this group a terrorist — a domestic terrorist organization.
Todd Huff: So we’ve got chaos that has been sown here. Chaos that they want to use for political purposes. They don’t care who they hurt. They don’t care what the consequences are.
Todd Huff: All they care about is using it for political advantage. And for the low-information voter — the person who listens to the mainstream news, the people who don’t listen to content programs like this — of course there’s not many that truly like this — people just buy the lies.
Todd Huff: They buy the lies, they go on their merry way. There’s the kind of social component of this, where people don’t want to be outside on the wrong side of this issue and get mocked and ridiculed and attacked and called a fascist and everything else. And so it’s just easier to go along. There’s a bunch of people that find themselves moving in that direction, allowing this nonsense to take over in this country.
Todd Huff: And so we find ourselves here at this crossroads. The government has been shut down for twenty-eight days now. Federal employees, air traffic controllers, and SNAP recipients are now missing paychecks. Travel delays have been reported — seven thousand flights had been delayed nationwide. That was reported by Reuters yesterday. Mess on our hands.
Todd Huff: So I’m going to take you back — I’m not going to play the clip — but yesterday I had Micah Beckwith on, and we were talking about a lot of things. We were talking about redistricting in particular. That was the main thrust of what we were talking about yesterday. But in this process, we ventured really quickly into the issue of the Seventeenth Amendment.
Todd Huff: The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on April 8, 1913. So this is one hundred and twelve years ago. And what it did — what it did was that it changed how the senators going to the United States Senate were selected. So each state, as you well know, has two senators. They have representatives — the number of representatives that are proportional to their percentage of the overall population in this country.
Todd Huff: Basically, there are 435 seats. Those are reallocated every ten years, based upon the census data that says this state has a higher population than this state. This state gains a seat or two; this state loses a seat or two based upon where people are moving and migrating and so forth within the United States of America.
Todd Huff: That’s how the House is divided. But the Senate — everybody gets two seats. The left doesn’t like the Senate, by the way. They don’t like that Wyoming, for example, gets two senators when California only gets two senators, and they say California is multiple times bigger than the state of Wyoming.
Todd Huff: “Why do we only get two senators? That means that the vote of the people that those senators represent is watered down,” they say, “because two senators divided over the millions of people in California is not the same proportion — not even close — to two senators from Wyoming split amongst the several hundred thousand people that you’ll find in that particular state.”
Todd Huff: And so that’s how they begin to chip away at this today. That’s how they’re chipping away at this. They’re trying to change the way it’s done, even, to further their electoral advantage. And listen, more power to you — but that’s not how senators were initially elected. Initially, senators were elected by the legislatures of the states, and the Founders were brilliant in this.
Todd Huff: This is the kind of thing that — I think the level of detail and thought the Founders put in to actually, just again, the minutiae and the details. The Founders wanted this to be a constitutional federal republic. So, meaning there’s still states’ rights — states still have a voice. They wanted there to be democratic aspects, certainly; the House of Representatives is elected directly by the people.
Todd Huff: But it is a constitutional republic, and we’ve gone through that before on this program. I don’t want to get into that at the moment, but it’s a constitutional federal republic.
Todd Huff: States’ rights. In a lot of ways, when we founded this country, it wasn’t quite like there were thirteen individual countries coming together, but certainly in a way it was like that. People considered themselves residents of a state — Pennsylvania, Virginia, whatever — and they were joining this federation of states that they would call the United States of America.
Todd Huff: It’s in the name, too, right? It’s right there for everybody to see. These are states that were united — federated — ultimately under the Constitution of the United States.
Todd Huff: And so, initially, the people elected representatives, and every two years the people could elect a new representative because all 435 members of the House of Representatives are up for re-election every two years.
Todd Huff: In theory — it’ll never happen — but in theory, all 435 seats could be flipped. That’s just in theory, not in practice. But the Senate is different. The Senate is elected by, originally, in the Constitution — it was elected by state legislatures.
Todd Huff: And so the thinking was, we wanted states to have a voice in Congress as well. The people had their voices through the House of Representatives; the Senate — excuse me — the states had their voice through the senators. Now, by the way, people in the states would still indirectly be electing these senators because they would be electing their state legislature.
Todd Huff: So the country did away with that through a constitutional amendment. Progressive-era reformers — they get blamed for tearing this country down in so many ways, and rightfully so.
Todd Huff: They advocated this to have senators elected directly by the people, which is crazy, right? Why would you have two different houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, have the same method by which the people were elected? What is the difference? Why have two, if this is how it’s done?
Todd Huff: It’s not the intention. It broke a fundamental — I would say — safeguard in our system when this amendment was ratified 112 years ago. So they said they wanted to do this to reduce deadlocks, to reduce corruption claims.
Todd Huff: I mean, give me a break. It’s funny — like, I understand, certainly I understand that there could be people who are running for Senate when they were elected by the state legislatures who said, “Look, let me bribe a couple people in the state legislature to help me get this position.”
Todd Huff: But the idea that there’s no bribery or no other shenanigans happening because you’re directly elected by the people — that that cuts off any opportunity for there to be any funny business — is just living with your head in the sand. There’s all sorts of ways that, again, the integrity of elections can be compromised. That’s why we have to have election integrity.
Todd Huff: That’s why we have to have voter ID. That’s why we have to have safe, secure ways. We have to have ballots that, once received, have the proper chain of custody, the procedures followed — all of that.
Todd Huff: Because there are certainly opportunities for these things to be … for bad things to happen, no matter what the system, no matter how it’s done. There’s always an opportunity for bad things to happen.
Todd Huff: Critics back in the time that this was passed argued that this weakened federalism — that it shifted loyalty from states to parties. We’ve seen what has happened. Now, what I want to talk about today, I don’t want to go too much into the weeds here, but currently it’s important to note that right now there are twenty-nine states that have Republican-controlled legislatures. There are eighteen states that have Democrat control of the legislature.
Todd Huff: If both of those, if all of those states — if the Democrat-controlled state legislatures sent two Democrat senators, that would mean there are thirty-six Democrat senators today.
Todd Huff: If we didn’t have the Seventeenth Amendment and the state legislatures still elected senators, there would be thirty-six Democrat senators. Republicans control twenty-nine state legislatures, so there would be fifty-eight. And then there are three — there are three states that have divided legislatures, meaning that one of the political parties controls the House and the other controls the Senate.
Todd Huff: And so it would be reasonable, in my way of thinking, to think that each of those states would have one Democrat and one Republican go to Washington, D.C., to represent their respective states.
Todd Huff: And so when you do all the math — if senators were elected the way that they were elected initially — there would be sixty-one Republican senators and thirty-nine Democrat senators. Suddenly the filibuster becomes totally a moot point. Because once there are sixty votes in the Senate, you can invoke cloture and cause the debate to end.
Todd Huff: And so simply by changing this mechanism by how senators were elected — that has impacted this as well, because now you have a system that allows for the manipulation of individual voters.
Todd Huff: You have a situation where people, I mean, can politically engage in theater all the time, and voters just fall for the nonsense. So more on this, my friends, I want to talk about this in the chaos that the left has caused us here in just a moment.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Chaos has ensued in this country. Chaos has been able to get a foothold in this country, in part — I’m not blaming all of this chaos that we have in this country on this, but in part because of the gradual eroding, the erosion, I should say, of the system and framework that our Founders had put in place. The safeguards.
Todd Huff: Not all of them, of course. Some of them have remained firm and true over time. Some of them have been chipped away at, like the Seventeenth. I’ve talked about — I don’t want to get into that too much. I just simply wanted to say this for two reasons. Number one, it’s relevant to the conversation.
Todd Huff: It helps understand how changes to things that might seem insignificant or even, to some degree, to be a benefit for the country oftentimes can have the exact opposite effect.
Todd Huff: Remember this when they talk about taking away the Electoral College. Remember this when they start talking about giving states like California more senators or having Wyoming have fewer senators. Remember that.
Todd Huff: One of the compromises made by big states and small states that allowed them all to sign on to the Constitution was the way that the House and the Senate was elected — the different ways that they were elected.
Todd Huff: And so remember that these things are done for a purpose. It doesn’t mean the Founders are flawless. The Founders were brilliant.
Todd Huff: I would be very hesitant to change too much of the way that they set up the government to function — as far as with these checks and balances and so forth, regarding the way that they thought about liberty and talked about the issues in the Bill of Rights, for example.
Todd Huff: That doesn’t mean that they’re infallible. We know that they are not. We know that the obvious one is how they handled the issue of slavery at the founding of this nation — it’s terrible, reprehensible. But that doesn’t mean that there are not very good things that they did when they framed this nation and how it would operate.
Todd Huff: By the way, the nation was allowed — by the way that the Founders framed it — the nation was able to ultimately fix the issue of slavery and get it addressed and eliminated. Address that issue.
Todd Huff: The system that we live in, even though they didn’t set it up properly at the beginning — made some really, really bad mistakes, did not respect the dignity, the humanity, the human rights of Black Americans — was atrocious.
Todd Huff: They still built a mechanism by which we were able to fix that situation. And so the system has a lot of good things in it, but there are risks. There are certainly risks if we start making these dramatic changes. And people today — there’s so much frustration that people are saying, “Well, something has to be wrong with the system.”
Todd Huff: I take a totally different viewpoint on that. The problem is not the system. The system has prevented the chaos from spreading further. What has caused this problem to happen are the people who are in these positions of political power — and the way that people have been manipulated and propagandized out there. That’s what’s happened.
Todd Huff: We’ve allowed people who are in positions of political power to get away with some very big statements. In fact, I’m about to play a sound bite. Biden’s out there — someone invited him to speak, I have no idea why they would, but they did. He’s up here at the podium talking about, well, again, painting this picture, trying to blame Trump for all of this tension and turmoil.
Todd Huff: I’m not here to say that Trump hasn’t engaged in things that lead to tension and turmoil. I’m saying the real problems that we have in this country have been percolating behind closed doors for decades — in fact, over a century, if you go back to the Seventeenth Amendment, even further back in some instances — how people have been moving towards moving this country toward a nation that goes further and further to the left.
Todd Huff: That is certainly a problem that has existed for a long, long time. And so they want to blame Trump. They want to cause the chaos. They want to cause the shutdown. They want to inspire the folks in Antifa. They want to defend Antifa.
Todd Huff: They want to defend college professors who say some reprehensible things, who have totally disregarded the free speech rights, the academic — just academic truth — on campuses, silencing the opposition.
Todd Huff: The left defends these people routinely, on a regular basis. And this is the stuff that’s been contributing to this societal … just degradation, I guess. We’ve been degrading our society over time, moving from things that were rooted in truth and academic integrity, and now we’ve just got pure propaganda out there.
Todd Huff: You go to college today — you go to college today, there are many professors who view it as their personal job to make you a little committed leftist when you leave that university. That is not education, my friends. That is programming. That is not teaching someone how to think. That’s teaching them what to think.
Todd Huff: And so many people, because they are intimidated by what happens if they disagree with the professor or they’re afraid socially what happens if they make a statement in the classroom, they sit quietly and they contribute. They contribute to the nonsense, friends. You’re either opposing that sort of thing, or you are complicit.
Todd Huff: You might not say, “I’m not actively pushing in that direction,” but you certainly are not keeping those from doing that — pushing this nation, whether it’s in the classroom, whether it’s in the halls of our government, whether it’s in woke business, wherever.
Todd Huff: You’re either pushing in the right direction, which is toward truth, constitutional conservative principles and values, liberty — pushing in that direction, pushing toward the truth of the Scriptures — or you’re pushing in the wrong direction.
Todd Huff: Which is wokeness. Which is — well, that sums it up, I think, best. Just wokeness. Anti-God mindset. This angry, self-entitled rage that exists out there today. Then there’s a group of people who think, “I’m just in the middle. I’m not going to get involved in this.”
Todd Huff: Well, congratulations for finding yourself in a position that doesn’t prevent the people from pushing it in the wrong direction. So you’re really not helping anything by not standing up. We need more of this. We need more strong people willing to stand up. It actually encourages more people to do the very same thing.
Todd Huff: My friends, there’s more of us out there than we even realize. But that being said, I want to get to Joseph Robinette Bribery here behind the microphone, of course, talking about the chaos that he and his party have helped create — deliberately helped create — and again, trying to blame Trump for this, trying to scare people into thinking the real risk, the real threat, is Trump, when the real threat, again, is what has been happening in this nation for at least a half century — in some cases, much longer.
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Todd Huff: All right, that being said, let’s play this quick sound bite — this short sound bite from Joseph Robinette Bribery at the podium here. I think it was yesterday. Again, someone invited this guy for some reason — I’m not sure why — but he’s speaking at the podium, and just listen to how he maligns Trump and blames Trump and the Republicans and — you, really — for what is happening here in this country today. Take a listen for yourself.
Joe Biden (Soundbite): “I know the idea of America depends on our respect for the institutions that govern and guarantee free society. It depends on a presidency with limited power. It depends on a functioning Congress. It depends on an autonomous judiciary. Depends on how free and independent press. Institutions reflect the timeless words we hold — these truths to be self-evident — you know, the thing — and we the people.
Joe Biden (Soundbite): Ongoing debates about the power and the exercise of power, debates about whether we lead by the example of our power or the power of our example — where we show the courage, stand up to the abuse of power, or we’re going to yield to it. We face these existential questions again today. We remain in a battle for the soul of our nation, in my view. We, all of us — and I mean all of us — have enormous responsibility to protect the institutions upon which the fate of our nation rests.”
Todd Huff: Okay, you get the idea. That was put together — I don’t know who put that clip together. I think it says WCVB Boston. Actually, he addressed an audience in Boston Sunday after winning the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. That’s what that’s from. Of course, prepared remarks that he was reading from a teleprompter, if you remember.
Todd Huff: He cited the Declaration there, and the reason I said “you know, the thing” is because that’s what he said — he forgot on the campaign trail. Started to cite the Declaration, forgot what he was saying, and just told the audience, “You know, the thing.” Unfortunately, the audience didn’t know, because they’re voting for these folks in the Democrat Party today.
Todd Huff: I’ve got to take a time-out, my friends. Quick time-out — back here in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends — third and final segment of the program today. I want to get to this sound bite of AOC again. They have wreaked havoc on this nation. They have sown seeds of discord. They have sown propaganda. They have lied, deceived for a long, long time.
Todd Huff: They’ve been moving this country further from its founding principles, away from the Constitution, away from the Declaration that Biden quoted in his speech there — the little clip that I played last segment. They’ve moved further and further away from that over the course of decades. Now they are trying to tell you — they’re trying to tell you that all this chaos is the result of President Trump.
Todd Huff: And if you don’t stand up and oppose him, you’re a fascist, you’re Hitler, you’re the problem. That’s what they want you to believe. It’s hogwash. It’s silliness. It’s not — it shouldn’t have an impact on people who are well-read, who understand truth, who understand the Constitution. It’s a game that’s being played. That’s what’s happening here.
Todd Huff: So I’ve got AOC. She’s at a Zoron Momdani rally in New York, and she’s going off. I just want to play this clip I found. This on RedState, by the way — all these things, if you want to go to the Stack of Stuff page on our website, you can find the original links of things that I talked about here on this program.
Todd Huff: Just go to ToddHuffShow.com, look for The Stack, and you’ll find the information from today’s episode — the articles and so forth.
Todd Huff: So she is going off here at the podium, and she’s basically trying to make all of these problems that we face today, all the tensions, the turmoil, the insecurity — things that have been caused in many cases — I don’t want to blame every problem on the radical left; that would be disingenuous. But a lot of them, a whole lot of them, are caused by the radical left.
Todd Huff: Some problems we have because of other factors. Some problems we have because we live in a fallen world. But many problems we have, my friends, are because the left has created them — and then they want to tell you to vote for them, and they’ll solve them.
Todd Huff: And so now they’re taking to the podium — and I’ll play this in a minute — it’s a short clip where she’s trying to get all ethnic groups, racial groups fired up to basically say, without saying it directly (and maybe she does elsewhere; I can’t listen to the entire speeches here), but the idea is that the Republican Party and Donald Trump have, according to these leftist lunatics, waged war on people who are not white conservative males or whatever.
Todd Huff: And so they are stirring people into a frenzy, in this case, to vote for Momdani in New York. For no reason other than just, again, superficial stuff. They want to point to his ethnicity and religion. If you ask him tough questions about some of those things — especially in New York City, especially as it pertains to 9/11 — you’re called Islamophobe and everything else.
Todd Huff: But they want to use these things, these pieces of identity, to stir people into a frenzy, to vote for someone based upon an emotion that has nothing to do with logic and what makes sense. Because Zoron Momdani is an absolute disaster of a politician. I mean, this guy is practically a Marxist running for mayor in the city of New York.
Todd Huff: So I’ll play that in a moment.
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Todd Huff: All right, here we go. We’ve got AOC at the microphone. I don’t have long to play this — I’m getting to the end of this segment — but I want you to listen to this. And, yeah, you can chuckle at how every time she says “Latino” she has to get the accent or whatever. Okay, that’s fine. But really, in another sense, this is a little bit concerning — in the sense that they are driving people into, I would say, a blind rage.
Todd Huff: Now, people have been here for a long time, but it’s being amplified even more. I just want you to listen to this — how she stirred these folks into a frenzy to vote for a Marxist. I don’t know what else to say about this. Here it is.
AOC (Soundbite): “Jews escaping Holocaust! Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow! Latinos seeking a better life! Native people standing for themselves! Asian Americans coming together — in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island, in this country!”
Todd Huff: Okay, you get the idea, right? All emotion, lots of cheering, no content there. There’s nothing of substance that’s relevant to this moment today. Obviously, she’s talking about things historically and people that have had, in some cases, to deal with terrible situations — and I recognize that.
Todd Huff: But what I don’t recognize is how she wants to put everybody into a group. I know it doesn’t make the same level of sound bite. I know that I can’t get up here and do that cadence and tell you the truth — it doesn’t translate that way.
Todd Huff: But the truth is, we are Americans. We are human beings first. The things that unify us are much greater than the things that separate us. Unless, of course, we want to take from one group to fund our lifestyle and live as we want, my friends.
Todd Huff: But I have to go. SDG.
