I wonder if any of the anti-17th amendment crowd will stick with their “principles” and oppose California having a recall election for Gavin Newsom? After all, the creation of Recall elections where the voters can directly remove a politician halfway thru their term by having a special election and voting on it was a product of the early 20th century “Progressive Era” and was introduced by leading “Progressives” of the time (those from the Teddy Roosevelt wing of the GOP and the Woodrow Wilson wing of the RATS)
As we all know from this enlightening article, anything to come out of that environment had insidious intentions, and is therefore bad and needs to be abolished.
That’s a haunting image, especially when you consider that “progressives” were the people who brought the eugenicist movement to America. It sort of ended when we had to go kick some Nazi asses. But while progressives may have abandoned eugenics (sort of, at least in name) their other ideas are just as bone-headed or evil.
Bitt - are you familiar with the articles ProgressingAmerica posts? He’s great. I think people on your ping list would like this one and others he posts.