GMP said:
Bear_Territory said:
Pretty amazing how Republicans won everything (more house seats, looks like they will keep the senate, state houses in a redistricting cycle) except the Presidency.
Yes, considering Biden is up 4M votes, it illustrates just how undemocratic our constitutional set up is.
"The tactically unique thing about Trumpism is that it never even tries to get the support of the majority of Americans. So the G.O.P. will continue with the strategy of using every legal, but democratically deeply harmful, way to control power even though most Americans vote against them like the way they just crammed through two Supreme Court justices."
...That means all the stresses on the American system of government will continue to grow, Mukunda added, because in our antiquated electoral system, Republicans theoretically can control both the White House and the Senate despite the desires of a large majority of the American people. "No system can survive that kind of stress," he concluded. "It will break at some point."
Thomas Friedman, NY Times
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