March 25, 2022
The Electoral College Goes Back to School
By Huck Davenport
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, the one thing both should agree on is that our system for selecting the world’s most consequential person is irreparably broken. If you are a Democrat, you witnessed the election of—what you believed to be—a treasonous, amoral demagogue dredged up from the bowels of the deplorables. If you are a Republican, you witnessed the election of a man unfit for bingo night at Shady Acres. An unintelligible, stammering, demented geriatric whose qualifications boast of corruption, racism, and sexism. How could this once great country—one that elected George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison—have descended into an abject kakistocracy?
Everything that is wrong with this country can be traced back to its departure from the core Constitution—the income tax, direct election of senators, the administrative state, and in the case of selecting the president, the assault on the Electoral College. The awesome responsibility of picking a president was certainly not lost on our Founders who desired a system to ensure (all quotations, unless otherwise identified, are from The Federalist Papers):
moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union. It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue.
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