Electoral College -- Faithless Electors Encouraged | National Review

Electoral College -- Faithless Electors Encouraged | National Review

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The hypocrisy is rather astonishing. A major theme of the Democrats and the press during the election was the absolute imperative of accepting the results. This lasted as a bedrock principle of democratic governance all the way until roughly 4 a.m. Wednesday, November 9, when it became clear that Trump had won and angry protests in the streets, pointless, harassing recounts, and calls for an Electoral College coup became the order of the day.

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More than anything else, the calls for an Electoral College coup expose a standardless will to power of a Left that professes to value democratic procedure. What else to make of opponents of the Electoral College urging the Electoral College to overthrow an election? The University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson has called the Electoral College a “menace to the American polity.” Yet he is now a signer of a public letter urging members of this menace to re-engineer the November election to his liking.

The electors do have the power to act as a last check on a presidential tyrant. But the norm of electors rubber-stamping the election’s winner is so ingrained in our system that any deviation from it would constitute a revolutionary act. The rationales advanced for a radical departure from the practice as established over a couple of centuries are tinny and unconvincing at best.

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