Tag: Electoral College

Pat Buchanan: Stacking the Electorate: How Middle America Is to be Dispossessed

James Fetzerblog

Pat Buchanan   In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College.   Hence the grand strategy of the left: to enlarge and alter the U.S. electorate so as to put victory as far out of reach for national Republicans as it is today for California Republicans, and to convert the GOP into America’s permanent minority party.   In the Golden State, Democrats control the governors’ chair, every…

Jonah Goldberg, Complaints that the Senate is Undemocratic ring Hollow

James Fetzerblog, Kavanaugh

Jonah Goldberg In the wake of the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a lot of people are suddenly very mad that the Senate is “undemocratic.” I’m unmoved.The reason for my indifference is twofold. First, this alleged outrage fits a time-honored tradition of progressives declaring illegitimate everything that is inconvenient to their agenda. Second, this is mostly about California being a big baby. Let’s start with the first point. Like other progressives, Woodrow Wilson started out arguing that Congress should be the center of power but switched lanes once…