@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
Trump is following the fascist cookbook.
RULE 1: create as many enemies as you can and then blame them for everything and blame all your predecessors for thie failures.
2RULE 2: Promise that "Only you" can solve all problems.
redo the ellectoral college
I believe your comments about useful enemies, blame and promises apply even more to those of all the current Democrat Presidential candidates and the current Democrat leasers in the Congress.
As for the electoral college, it is mandated in our Constitution. Eliminating it or making any significant change to it will require an amendment to the Constitution - an intentionally difficult and time consuming process. Our Constitution is primarily a specification of what our Federal government is permitted to do: everything else is reserved for the states, It is, in effect, our original law limiting the actions of future Federal governments, and was explicitly designed by our founders to be difficult to change.
Democrat efforts to undermine the Electoral college for their own political gain are reminiscent of Putin's now regular amendments to Russia's constitution, designed to keep himself in power.