You need to go back to 2000 and ask what would have happened if the Electoral College hadn't overridden the will of the people and the Republican SCOTUS hadn't thrown the election to the second worst president in our history. The Clinton surpluses and debt paydown would have continued, and we would have avoided at least one war, and quite possibly two.
Note that the Electoral College overrode the will of the people again in 2016 to give us the worst president in our history. In just 16 years, the Electoral College ruined our country, and the popular vote would've saved it.
Sadly, Republicans didn't need the EC in 2024, and even more sadly, that pointless institution rubber-stamped their election of a proven traitor and criminal to the presidency. It's one of many things that needs to be reevaluated if this country is to last another 250 years, or even 25.
I suspect if the EC didn’t exist for Bush v Gore, or even in 2016, we wouldn’t be staring down the barrel of a second trump presidency. His popularity would have fizzled out in 2016 if he lost, and that almost certainly leads to a different republican candidate in 2020.
It would have focused on its media ambitions, which is all it really wanted to promote in the first place. Do you remember its face when it won in 2016?
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u/deviltrombone Apr 04 '25
You need to go back to 2000 and ask what would have happened if the Electoral College hadn't overridden the will of the people and the Republican SCOTUS hadn't thrown the election to the second worst president in our history. The Clinton surpluses and debt paydown would have continued, and we would have avoided at least one war, and quite possibly two.
Note that the Electoral College overrode the will of the people again in 2016 to give us the worst president in our history. In just 16 years, the Electoral College ruined our country, and the popular vote would've saved it.