We've had this system, in broad outline, for 2+ centuries, through multiple expansions of the electorate, many different partisan coalitions, & endless shifts in who benefits from what at particular moments. Skepticism should always face those who urge blowing it up for an edge.https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1429556769022517251 …
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I remember when these same pundits were arguing that majorities in midterm elections were illegitimate. I went back through this in this October thread.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1321546460106838021 …
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Yes, multi-year majorities, because the different branches are elected on different schedules. Majorities with a wide, diverse base, rather than concentrated in a single region. This is how American governing majorities have always been formed.https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1429563782875914241 …
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This stuff is not complicated. Americans my age learned it by fourth grade.
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Every two years, we have federal elections. Every two years, progressives revise their theories of why it is illegitimate for any elected Republican to represent the people who elected them.
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Here's another one who doesn't grasp the basic multi-year, multi-branch structure of American government that minimally educated people have learned in grammar school for two centurieshttps://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1429604864754061317 …
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There literally is nothing more than this to any of what progressives argue about our systemhttps://twitter.com/Holden114/status/1429606765985939458 …
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We've had both filibuster & gerrymandering for 200+. Ds filibustered hundreds of times during the Trump Admin, never stopped gerrymandering. We've added states only once since the last frontier states were admitted by 1912, & haven't in over 60 years.https://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/1429616028829593604 …
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No one tell them that for example Justin Trudeaus party didn’t get the most votes and yet has an electoral plurality.
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Funny that your initial response mischaracterized the statement you were criticizing, and now you’re trying to defend a different from the one you made now receiving it’s own criticism (for being wrong).
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