The movement to save democracy from threats is too quick to overlook problems that have been present since the founding.

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3. Sorry, but there's nothing "democratic" about the Electoral College.

Far from protecting us from "the mob" it actually empowered the MAGA mob in 2016 and may do so again later this year.

We wouldn't be in this tenuous position if the presidency was awarded without fail to the candidate who won the most votes. A Trump win under such a constitutional regime would be well nigh impossible.

As it is, several thousand votes in a half dozen states will determine whether or not we install as our next president a serial rapist, scam artist, Putin-lover fraud who has vowed to punish his critics, abandon our allies, and enshrine the idea that the president is above the law.

In this instance I would most definitely prefer majoritarian rule. I trust the majority of voters, who have given Democrats the vote in seven out of the past eight presidential elections.