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Unless it violates the constitution, what the democratic process produces in a democracy is legitimate, regardless of whether we think it’s bad, and this applies more broadly. Badness has no bearing on the question 3/

If the Electoral College is a product of the democratic process (one that was widely accepted until recently), the democratic process is the one thing that can undo it. So Democrats should try to change it, but there's a strong likelihood they'll fail 4/

So what happens if we can't change the Electoral College? Does that mean every single election the Republicans win with the EC but not the popular vote for, say, the next 20 years will be considered illegitimate? How exactly would our democracy survive that? 5/