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‘Morally indefensible’ – but George W Bush will not come out against Trump
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America is a fascist country and it was particularly fascist during his '84 election bid. Winning in a landslide on a white supremacist, anti-LGBT, New Red Scare platform is not a point in his favor. Might as well laud the administrations of Andrew Jackson or William McKinley.
Given the degree of electoral suppression common to the post 14th Amendment American electoral system, those numbers are likely much worse. But they're also illustrative of the consequences of electoral strategy. Republicans don't care how much you run up the score in California if they can win on the margins in Pennsylvania or Michigan. Democrats keep reaching for Texas and Florida, then falling short, which bumps up their gross total without yielding any electoral benefit.
But neither party seems enthusiastic about ending the EC. Despite a Trump delegate coup in Georgia and a J6 riot at the capital threatening the legal transfer of power, Dems seem blaise about amending the constitution or even tilting the deck back in their favor with DC statehood.