Tam on the 17^th Amendment.

All you ever needed to know about that particular example of cranial flatulence.

Honestly, given the fact that the 16^th (income tax) and 17^th (popular election of Senators) Amendments passed in 1913 (both inarguably due to "progressive" influence) followed by the 18^th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919 and the 19^th Amendment (women's suffrage) in 1920, we have the briefest period of massive (and on the part of the first three, destructive) change to the Constitution since its ratification.

Yes, I blame the Left. Yes, I think it was intentional.