Pretty sure I didn't do that. I have my issues with the EC, but it's like 40th on the list of things I would want to fix about our democracy. He won the contest the way it was set up, fair and square.
I'm only making the point that you have a heavy lift to argue that the key to Trump was that he was picking super-duper popular policies, but also that his super-duper popular policies didn't even win him the popular vote.
So your argument is that a candidate who lost the popular vote twice is the one who is appealing to “the people”?
Are you sure he’s not “appealing to a very specific group that felt disenfranchised but was willing to turn out”?
Congratulations on arguing why the team who gets the most yards on offense should always win the Super Bowl.
Pretty sure I didn't do that. I have my issues with the EC, but it's like 40th on the list of things I would want to fix about our democracy. He won the contest the way it was set up, fair and square.
I'm only making the point that you have a heavy lift to argue that the key to Trump was that he was picking super-duper popular policies, but also that his super-duper popular policies didn't even win him the popular vote.
Goddammit, this is such a stupid and dishonest response.