Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, the one thing both should agree on is that our system for selecting the world’s most consequential person is irreparably broken. If you are a Democrat, you witnessed the election of—what you believed to be—a treasonous, amoral demagogue dredged up from the bowels of the deplorables. If you are a Republican, you witnessed the election of a man unfit for bingo night at Shady Acres. An unintelligible, stammering, demented geriatric whose qualifications boast of corruption, racism, and sexism. How could this once great country—one that elected George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison—have descended into an abject kakistocracy?
Everything that is wrong with this country can be traced back to its departure from the core Constitution—the income tax, direct election of senators, the administrative state, and in the case of selecting the president, the assault on the Electoral College. The awesome responsibility of picking a president was certainly not lost on our Founders who desired a system to ensure (all quotations, unless otherwise identified, are from The Federalist Papers):
