No, the current system enabled him, because it doesn’t take partisanship into account. The fabled checks and balances of the US constitution was created in a fantasy world where people of the same political party was meant to forget about that partisanship in favour of the plight of their office.
Isn’t it like… the exact reason… the electoral college exists?
Like… “Hey dumb shit voters, we don’t trust you to not be deceived by a conman populist piece of shit, so we’re going to have an elector make the final call whether the one you voted for should actually be allowed to win.”
Yes, but the electoral college has basically never functioned in that manner. People rightly argued that they should get what they vote for, thus electors in most states are legally bound to vote for the winning candidate.
There should be a role against winner take all. All of California doesn’t vote Dem and all of Texas doesn’t vote fascist. A proportional electoral college would have a more center left leaning.
Funny thing is the current system should have prevented him but, corruption.
No, the current system enabled him, because it doesn’t take partisanship into account. The fabled checks and balances of the US constitution was created in a fantasy world where people of the same political party was meant to forget about that partisanship in favour of the plight of their office.
Actual realistic constitutions do not do that.
Isn’t it like… the exact reason… the electoral college exists?
Like… “Hey dumb shit voters, we don’t trust you to not be deceived by a conman populist piece of shit, so we’re going to have an elector make the final call whether the one you voted for should actually be allowed to win.”
Yes, but the electoral college has basically never functioned in that manner. People rightly argued that they should get what they vote for, thus electors in most states are legally bound to vote for the winning candidate.
There should be a role against winner take all. All of California doesn’t vote Dem and all of Texas doesn’t vote fascist. A proportional electoral college would have a more center left leaning.
The purpose of a system is what it does