Sunday, January 09, 2022

Yale Historian David Blight Not Happy With U.S. Senate

Historian David Blight isn't happy with the U.S. Senate:
The ridiculously undemocratic US Senate, now 50/50 between the two parties, but where Democrats represent 56.5% of the population and Republicans 43.5%, augurs well for those determined to thwart majoritarian democracy. And, of course, the electoral college – an institution more than two centuries out of date, and which even our first demagogue president, Andrew Jackson, advocated abolishing – offers perennial hope to Republicans who may continue to lose popular votes but win the presidency, as they have in two of the last six elections. Democracy?
David Blight struggles with Roger Sherman's creation.