What’s more, Trump has turned the original justification for the Electoral College on its head. Instead of checking popular passions which might elect an antidemocratic demagogue, it has done the opposite – installing an antidemocratic demagogue the people rejected.

Barack Obama and Kamala Harris have both talked with patriotic pride about how theirs is a “story that could only be written in America.” But, thanks to the Electoral College, so too is Donald Trump’s a story that could only be written in America. For more, read: www.weekendreading.n...

The Electoral College: Legal but not Legitimate

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