LaVar Hosting Jeopardy July 26-30 Stan Account 👁

Even if you accept claim that states are the unit of political equality—and deserve = weight regardless of size—you're left with a problem.

Whatever the framers envisioned, they certainly didn't anticipate a system where a distinct minority (a "faction) had unified control.

That the Constitution precludes "tyranny of the majority" doesn't actually mean that it endorses minority rule.

And one reason our current arrangement isn't seen as illegitimate rule by minority is that said minority is white, and thus...

...in the political imagination of America, intrinsically representative and reflective of the country at large.

From the beginning American democratic thinking took whiteness as a prerequisite to citizenship and that idea persists to the present.

Such that we conceptualize white voters, & rural/blue-collar ones in particular, as a kind of super-citizen whose choices are extra-salient.