Democracy is for idiots.

That’s pretty much what the Federalist says. The USA is not a democracy; it is a republic with a representative government structure. Trump is what “democracy” gets you. How did that moron win the nomination? He won it by by-passing the representative function inside the GOP, a representative function that should never have let fifteen better-than-Trump candidates each lose to Trump. THAT was “democracy,” too.

2016 was a tragic year for our country for many reasons. Not least among them is that we learned the wrong lesson from Trump’s victory. The lesson is not that a “democratically” nominated candidate (Trump) is more desirable than a “rigged-system” candidate (HRC). The lesson is that the Democrat cannot run on identity politics and ignore the bread-and-butter issues that voters in the manufacturing states care about. Trump won because he carried the “Blue Wall” states, not because he carried Montana. If the Democrat cannot carry the industrial north, the heartland of labor, how on earth can the party blame the Electoral College for its defeat? The EC was its ace in the hole! Until HRC filled the Convention dais with woke WoCs and hardly a white man in sight.

Of course, nothing in my post has anything to do with preserving minority rule, or “my” minority” or some baloney about smart people voting. Politics is just economics continued by other means. I cited economic interests, and that’s all I feel obliged to defend. The deciding voters in the Blue Wall states voted their pocketbooks. The deplorables were there, and they were out in numbers, as they will be again. But the pivotal issue was the economy, stupid, and for a Clinton not to have run on that mantra is beyond comprehension.

It is absurd to think I support the EC because I want minority rule. The EC has mostly conformed to the popular vote, so I would hardly support it if I really cared about which party it helped. And, of course, we have no idea how the candidate who lost the popular vote would have fared if his strategy had been to seek the popular vote. You can’t lose a game that was not being played. Such dynamic analysis seems to confound people on the ‘Net. Must be the electrons or something. Like I said, idiots and liars.