Looks like someone needs to say this for the hundred thousandth-and-second time: The United States is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The Constitution makes it very plain. While the federal government has some democratic institutions (the House of Representatives – sort of) it also includes some very un-democratic institutions (the Senate, the Supreme Court) because the United States is not a democracy, and the Founders set it up deliberately to prevent government by direct democracy.
Leave it to MSNBC’s execrable talking head Chris Hayes to neither know nor care about any of this. On Friday, he was in a bit of a snit over new polling showing Donald Trump pulling ahead of Kamala Harris in the Electoral College–and proved, once again, that he’s willing to throw out the founding principles of the nation if it means his side might not win an election.
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