The Electoral College chose Bozo.
He has their mandate.
The mandate of, what?, 538 low flying political noodles?
Odd, which mandate cuts ice, eh?
The most usual defense of the EC and its power to defy the preference of the actual voters is that it is thus empowered to save us from the people's choice of some dreadful demagogue, making president in his stead some at least harmless politician, if not some admirable statesman.
I guess we won't hear much of that defense, any more.
But another might be that the EC, like the equal representation of states in the senate, intentionally insulates our political branches and institutions from all always or usually being overwhelmed by the same popular passions at the same time.
If we did not have such braking devices, imagine how much more power horrors like Trump might obtain from "wave" elections dominated by his supporters.
Or how much power underlying popular phenomena like the existence of so many deplorables all supporting the same sort of politician or agenda might gain in a single election or sequence of federal elections if they were all equally or too close to equally responsive to the - hopefully transient - passions of deplorable voters like the Trumpist Republicans.
Maybe that's an argument for both the EC and unequal representation in the senate that potentially survives the counter-example of Trump?
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