If anyone thought the status quo would fold up after the hammer blows of the 2016 populist revolt, they were wrong. Ben Rhodes noted the effects of unremitting resistance with approval. “Bibi backsliding. Boris flailing… Fight back. It will work.” Victor Davis Hanson conceded the crushing weight of the establishment riposte: “After nearly four years of ceaseless attacks by Democrats and the press, the strange thing is not that Trump can be occasionally wearisome, but that he is even still breathing.”
The tone of the fight was set by Greta Thunberg’s declaration to a crowd of environmental supporters: “We can’t save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change.” It was a ringing call to victory over the Deplorables, victory by any means necessary. It was as if the old legalisms themselves had become too restrictive to allow the truly good guys to win. As Hillary Clinton told an audience at George Washington University: “You can run the best campaign and have the best plans and get the nomination and win the popular vote and you can lose the Electoral College and therefore the election.”
“This is one of those moments we stand at a crossroads of our own a crisis in democracy. Racists and white supremacist views are lifted up in the media and the White House. Hard fought for civil rights are stripped back. Rule of law is being undermined, our norms and institutions… are under assault, and that includes the single most important fight of our times…the fight to protect the right to vote.”
She deserved to win but the rules betrayed her. If you can’t win the old way, change the rules. To avoid another setback to history, Elizabeth Warren proposes to abolish the Electoral College. “Every vote matters, and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College,” Ms. Warren said. If that doesn’t work, keep getting rid of stuff until it does.
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(2) The Iran Dilemma, the Saudi Dilemma, and the Iran–Saudi Dilemma
(3) As Democrats Thrash, Trump Rises Above It All
(4) Pelosi’s Drug Plan: Ideology or Ignorance?
(5) Dems Will Have To Lie About Their Agenda To Win, Poll Shows
