Losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college is legal but not legitimate and this illegitimacy should not be smoothed away.
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@ChMadar@nils_gilman If only one could define in any useful way whatever the hell "legitimacy" is supposed to be.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
my lay definition of legitimacy: "When you accept the sovereign's decisions/acts as valid, even if you disagree"
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A bit too subjective; making one's disagreement with the electoral college a basis to delegitimize a new President.
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Replying to @FilozofA @nils_gilman
popular government entails a lot of collective subjectivity.
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I agree, actually; I meant "you" plural!
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Replying to @nils_gilman @FilozofA
Schmitt was right about this: liberals have hard time making pol judgments that are overtly political, not legal.
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