"Literally zero people have made" the argument that the 2016 result discredits the Electoral College. Also: https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1152663127873527809 …pic.twitter.com/Vy2LfaYMpY
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I edited point #2 to track my original article (some folks objected that the French system would qualify). Fact remains: progressive claim there are no possible counterarguments to a national popular vote, yet nearly every major democracy uses a different system than that.pic.twitter.com/ubXk7oRDRa
I'm content to rest on the American experience as validation for the American system. But if you argue that the American system is a uniquely bad form of government, you should look at what other democracies - less durable than our own - have done.
I remember the Obama & Clinton presidencies, & to some extent Carter. They were not characterized by widespread conservative agitation to change the rules by which presidents are elected.
70K votes in 3 states shouldn't decide a contest for the person who lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. That's lop-sided and un-democratic. Even this President knows that it strains credulity in terms of legitimacy. When law feels like a technicality we all lose.
I'd say votes by Californians shouldn't decide the entirety of the outcome of a Presidential election.
1) The argument against the divine right of kings to just murder a bunch of peasants whenever they feel like it says more about the person making it than it does the issue. 2) The electoral college today is nothing like it was when it was created, which is the point he made
3) "There are no possible arguments in favor of the American system of government as it has existed for 100 years" is a take that says more about the person writing it than it does to engage with the issue. -But in 1964 arguing the black people shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Read...history? But will it confirm his preexisting partisan narratives??
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