When your response to actual American history is "LOL Whatabout Trump." You don't need much reading from the Founding period to be familiar with their concerns about Athenian-style direct democracy, eg, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/james-madison-mob-rule/568351/ …https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1108021153694666753 …
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Actual history of the Electoral College at the Phil Convention was complicated; there were multiple proposals & delegations like Virginia were split. Delegates from Massachusetts & Connecticut vocally opposed a national popular vote; Randolph (VA) wanted POTUS picked by Congress.
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse
This sort of reductive narrative that the Electoral College was 100% about slavery and the North's unified desire for a popular vote was defeated by equally unified Southern slavers is a serious distortion of that history.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1108027266460774400 …
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b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouieHere is Madison discussing why he thought popular election of the president made sense. His only reservation was the fact that the southern states held so many slaves that they would not be able to bring their populations to bear on the choice of president! That's it! pic.twitter.com/xzCb1UvZsTShow this thread5 replies 16 retweets 60 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @baseballcrank @NoahCRothman
I don't know what you are responding to here, but Jamelle doesn't say it was 100% about slavery. He says MADISON's reservations had to do with slave state populations. Rightly noting that Madison was not a fan of the EC.
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I know you have issues with Jamelle, and disagree with him on this issue, but that's no reason to misrepresent his argument. He wrote an article about the complicated discussion re: the EC amongst the founders, and notes exactly what you did about Sherman. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/the-electoral-college.html …
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