The Left has decided that the Electoral College must go. This morning, Jammelle Bouie has a column in the New York Times titled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Understands Democracy Better Than Republicans Do”. Say what? His subtitle gives us the answer: “The idea that proponents of greater electoral equity have to quiet down because we live in a ‘republic’ is absurd.” I love living in a Republic. What’s Jammelle got against it?

He starts off his article by quoting a Twitter skirmish between Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Dan Crenshaw:

In a brief series of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez made the case against the Electoral College and argued for a national popular vote to choose the president. “Every vote should be = in America, no matter who you are or where you come from,” she wrote. “The right thing to do is establish a Popular Vote. & GOP will do everything they can to fight it.”

Crenshaw, who has sparred with Ocasio-Cortez before, jumped in with a response: “Abolishing the Electoral College means that politicians will only campaign in (and listen to) urban areas. That is not a representative democracy.” And then he said it: “We live in a republic, which means 51% of the population doesn’t get to boss around the other 49%.”

Bouie claims that there is no way that a candidate could win without building city and country coalitions. The Washington Post published an interesting piece on the 2016 electoral map that mostly puts paid to that argument. What areas of Alabama, Tennessee or Kentucky would a Democrat candidate campaign in? Why waste precious campaign dollars on people who cling to guns and God?

Just so you know who Jammelle Bouie is, here are some of his thoughts about those of us with an “R” behind our name:

Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he wrote an article for Slate arguing that there was “no such thing as a good Trump voter.” Several days earlier, he compared Trump voters to the “angry, recalcitrant whites” who pushed back during Reconstruction era after the Civil War.

We recalcitrant-types must be stopped.

Bouie also claims that for the Founding Fathers ““democracy” did not mean majority rule in a system of representation.” He claims that the idea that our country is a Republic and not a Democracy came from a 1940 article by a Franklin Roosevelt opponent:

One Roosevelt opponent, for example — Boake Carter, a newspaper columnist who supported the America First Committee (which opposed American entry into World War II) — wrote a column in October 1940 called “A Republic Not a Democracy,” in which he strongly rebuked the president for using the word “democracy” to describe the country. “The United States was never a democracy, isn’t a democracy, and I hope it will never be a democracy,” Carter wrote.

Since Jammelle Bouie clearly hates my type (Trump voter) and AOC is not a Constitutional scholar, I don’t give any credence to what they think. Representative Dan Crenshaw has put his life on the line and given an eye for our country. I have more faith in Crenshaw.

While the electoral college is not mentioned in the Constitution, the electors are mentioned. The Democrats who want direct elections would have to change the Constitution or circumvent it to get their desired outcome.

Here is a video on the importance of the Electoral College:

Me, I am going to stick with my least favorite Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin. From the Constitution Center.org:

There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: “A republic, if you can keep it.” The brevity of that response should not cause us to under-value its essential meaning: democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health.

And, I will fight to my last breath against AOC and Jamelle Bouie to keep our Republic.

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