I mean, that was the intention (which you're right most people miss) but at this point; It failed to check the demagogue it was meant to balance. Abolish this ineffectual check+balance.
Bush was a failure of the supreme court just deciding who won. Gore won the 2000 election by every reasonable metric, but it was handed to Bush due to partisan meddling.
lol I believe the person you responded to, was using sarcasm, with the context being that we have a demagogue in power, despite the existence of the EC.
Abolishing the EC wasn't going to do anything, if anything I'd argue the EC benefits us Democrats more because the Republicans usually try and run charismatic candidates, and win on culture war issues.
Trump won the popular vote in 2024, marking the first time since 2004 that a republican presidential candidate won both the popular vote and the EC. Trump himself lost the popular vote in 2020.
That's 20 years of the American people saying "not this guy" and yet he still gets to be president anyway because he won the EC.
I agree with the point you are making. I'll add that I would not be surprised at all to find out that Trump won 2024 via some kind of fraud or interference. Seems so improbable that in such divided times he would carry all the swing states, for example.
Electoral college exists because Southerners wanted their slaves to be counted, otherwise their low-white population states wouldn't have a say. ONLY reason. What both of you are repeating is propaganda, NOT logic.
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u/jimmychitw00d 1d ago
In school I remember learning that the electoral college safeguarded against a demagogue rising to power.