Or rather, conservatives believe, deep down, that the *possibility* of electoral losses is legitimate, & the Left does not. It is not a coincidence that the original democratic transfer of power was away from a party of the Right (the Federalists). https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1289971635311669248 …
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Are you conflating democrats and "the left"?
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Also, sometimes you expand the electorate when you know it's undemocratic to limit the electorate
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You realize how profoundly undemocratic your second remark is? So your view is that advocating for women’s suffrage was...what exactly? The wrong thing to do because a bunch of losers were trying to expand the electorate?
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My point is, the only relationship it has to accepting outcomes is to try to overturn them by means other than persuading the existing voters.
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And your last remarks reveals your chronic instrumentalism. It’s not about who won elections after the electorate was expanded. It’s about extending the franchise to all of the citizenry. The right constantly opposes that, win or lose. The left doesn’t.
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Nobody ever went broke assuming instrumentalism in every movement of the left.
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