Do people who've spent every waking moment since 2016 screaming about the urgent need to preserve our sacred "norms" really not understand that abolishing the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court would also constitute norm violations
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I mostly agree, but there might be a distinction to be drawn between substantive norms like Electoral College abolition or court packing and the pearl clutching about Trump's breach of mostly superficial etiquette norms around 'the dignity of the office', &c.
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There are people who have been against electoral college way before Trump.
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It's clearly political by most yelling.
End of conversation
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The electoral college was designed to balance power between urban and rural areas, just like Congress is
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Mike - the norms are dead and all that’s left is the pretense that they might one day be restored. We need a way to govern this violated mess and dissolution of the EC is low hanging fruit
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What’s funny is the EC protected the northern states from slave states when Const was ratified. 1790 “free persons” census showed VA largest state and NC+SC larger than NJ+CT. Slaves states’ “free persons” almost 1/3 of total US population *incl slaves*, who were enumerated.
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And SCOTUS-packing by Andrew Jackson gave us court that handed down Dredd-Scott decision and ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
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There are norms that undermine democracy and norms that preserve it.
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Not all norms are created equal.
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