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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Sep 2020

      THIS, from Kevin Williamson: Accept the Resultshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/2020-election-both-sides-should-accept-results/ …

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    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      The central polemical nonsense here is that Dems “refused to accept the results” in 2016. How exactly was that manifested? Did the losing candidate not concede? Did she not attend the inauguration? Did Dem members of Congress refuse to go into session? Just vapid non truth.

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    3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      No. What happened is that many liberals—not even party officials, although there were a few—pointed out the a system of elections in a democracy in which every vote is not equal will lead to a legitimacy crisis.But, of course they “accepted” the results. What else could they do?

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    4. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      Do you just not know that not all democracies weigh every vote ”equally” in the way you suggest we should?

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    5. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd @baseballcrank

      I don’t care if they do or they don’t. That’s what should happen. And nobody has an electoral college equivalent. A second place party can join a governing coalition elsewhere, but they can’t simply be elected to govern as they can here. So why defend that?

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    6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @michaelbd @baseballcrank

      So your condescension in defense of minoritarian “democracy” only results in conservatives ignoring the votes of millions of white rural voters in CA/NY/IL alone. Great way to build a governing coalition.

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    7. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      the system we have doesn’t exist to build great coalitions

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd @yeselson

      Charlie is right, very few functional democracies choose the chief executive by national popular vote https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-electoral-college-is-not-the-outlier-its-critics-insist-it-is/ … And you really have to be in a lot of denial to ignore the persistent rejection of Trump's legitimacy as president & how it's warped the past 4 yrs.

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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd

          His argument makes my point too. There’s no direct analogy possible between a presidential system and a parliamentary system even when they both first past the post. But Trudeau’s Liberals cannot govern without help from smaller parties.

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank @michaelbd

          The rest of your remarks are risible and barely worth commenting about except to say that Democrats despise Trump because hes completely unfit for office—a corrupt, racist psychotically cruel ignoramus. That he didn’t get the most votes reflects on our anachronistic system which

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        2. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson

          Correct. And in most of those systems various regions or constituencies (particularly rural ones or academia) get disproportionate shares of formal political power. And each has their reasons for this.

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @michaelbd @baseballcrank

          Yes.And that makes votes unequal and a new world country doesn’t need to privilege rural constituencies anymore than they already are and would remain so. And, as I said, it wipes out millions of rural voters in large blue state’s, so it doesn’t even make sense on its own terms.

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