Badlands Daily: 8/5/26 - Abolish the Senate Push, Electoral College Fight & Fauci's Confirmation Gap

CannCon and Ashe dig into a growing chorus of Democratic voices, from Chuck Schumer on down, floating the idea of abolishing or reforming the Senate entirely, tying it back to the broader DSA takeover conversation from recent weeks. They play a stack of clips including Pete Buttigieg making the case against the Electoral College this week and connect the dots on why this messaging is suddenly everywhere at once. Later in the show there's a genuinely stunning revelation about Anthony Fauci's decades long NIAID position never once requiring Senate confirmation, despite being the highest paid person in the federal government during that stretch, and what that says about accountability across the bureaucracy. Expect a lot of sharp back and forth, some structural constitution talk, and the usual sponsor breaks along the way.