When Piker was introduced, he told the people of Milwaukee that “Wisconsin is the heart of the historic American socialist movement.” “He’s right partly about history, maybe more right than he knows,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says, pointing out that Piker received a standing ovation. “Coalition is the oldest word in the story, and Wisconsin really invented it,” Glenn says, noting that in 1910, Emil Seidel was elected mayor of Milwaukee. That’s all more than sewers,” Glenn says. That is the way socialists work,” Glenn explains.