Trump was not "democratically elected" - he lost by 2.9 million votes. He was "constitutionally elected," by an 18th century constitutional design that includes a ban on foreign bribes to the president and that offers impeachment and removal as a remedy for bribe-seekinghttps://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1194362323944632320 …
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But by that logic you could assume the same for Clinton
Sure. But the point is you can't say, as Frum did, that Trump "lost."
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Fair but Frum's larger point was to discredit the ideas advanced over the years that Trump's victory represents "the will of the people", that his electoral victory meant he had a governing mandate and that his impeachment is an attack on democracy. None of these things are true.
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Well that's certainly right. In fact so obviously right that adding the red herring about the electoral vs popular vote only weakens it.
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Frum's point is there are two constitutional mechanisms: EC and impeachment. The Trump apologists are obscuring both with arguments like a "coup" of a "democratically" elected official. He's not saying the election was invalid.
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