"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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It’s a component of how we elect the president. It’s far from the whole political system.
I'm more interested in his assumption that because it's a long-lasting thing the founders contrived it must be supportable. My understanding is that the founders established certain norms and institutions that lasted a great long while that seem very evil in hindsight.
Nothing in the Constitution says that electors must vote in favor of the candidate that won the vote in their state. That was a later invention.
It literally isn't, we didn't start using the current system until 1828 or later, but also we choose the president without blacks being allowed to vote for 150 of those years, so maybe not the best possible metric.
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