But “president by ten arbitrarily contested states out of 50+ DC” *is* how we elect presidents. (The states may change, but not the logic.) In a country of 200 million eligible voters spread across a continent and beyond, that’s shrewdly empowering to we, the people!https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1167951035127582720 …
A page of political history is worth a volume of normative logic.
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You would find anybody on twitter more sympathetic to historical logic or scholarship than me—people here mock me for it. But the I’ll stand by the normative logic of “majority rules” and “all votes should be equally weighted.”
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Sometimes mathematical majoritarianism doesn’t work, which is why power-sharing was necessary in Northern Ireland.
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