Doctor MemoryBrilliant system we've got here. A racist game show host flukes his way into the presidency by losing the popular vote by three million and so he gets to install three Supreme Court justices and they get to un-do the last 50 years of legislation and jurisprudence. Wow, such popular mandate, very democracy.
Frank@memory correct me if I’m wrong, but a republican hasn’t won the popular vote in the last four decades. They basically only have power ever because our system is designed to subvert the will of the people to keep a minority of regressive aasholes from flipping out. In any functional democracy the Republican Party would have lost its political power and influence almost fifty years ago.
@frankmseattle I'm afraid that's not correct: 40 years takes us back to 1983 -- Reagan won the popular vote by a landslide in 84, GHWB by a smaller but still substantial margin in 88, and while GWB lost it in 2000 he won the popular vote handily in 2004. The fluky elections were 2000 and 2016, not that those weren't bad enough.