1. A brief riff: the American intellectual right was very anti-democratic before mid-1970s (see National Review on Franco) & very anti-democratic since (Thiel being prime example). What was exception was brief window (1970s-2008) when right was relatively pro-democratic https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1159495342204887040 …
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Yes, but in other cases (Brexit) the popular majority is heavily stressed, with rhetoric about elites thwarting the majority's will. (Also, EC majority is still a majority of sorts - I think the argument is that it more accurately represents a diverse population. The irony.)
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More accurately represents the smaller part of the population when it disagrees with the larger part of the population
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