"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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"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
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin
Since folks are kicking around arguments about the Electoral College again, I've previously written a piece @NRO & two long threads on the topic.
https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1108025352062992384 …
https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124753911972278273 …
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ …
Dan McLaughlin added,
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Brian Beutler
"There are no possible arguments in favor of the American system of government as it has existed for two centuries" is a take that says more about the person writing it than it does to engage with the issue.https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1152668227757121536 …
Dan McLaughlin added,
Wait! You conflated “American system of government” which is your phrase not @brianbeutler, with a discrete instituting called the Electoral College.
It's literally the system by which we've chosen the most important figure in the American government for over two centuries.
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.
The Electoral College we have now isn't even the one devised by the Founders.
I'm in favor of expanding the House, as my article on the EC indicated. It's what the Framers would have expected.
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