How To Beat Republicans At Their Own Game: Robert Reich

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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explores three key ways we can restructure our democracy to level the playing field after Trump and Mitch McConnell's shameless Supreme Court power grab. The Constitution doesn’t prevent increasing the size of the Supreme Court in order to balance it. Or creating a pool of circuit court justices to cycle in and out of it. In fact, the Constitution says nothing at all about the size of the Court.

From granting statehood to Washington, D.C. to abolishing the Electoral College, nothing should be off the table to strengthen our democracy. There is no reason to accept the structure of our democracy when it repeatedly empowers a ruthless minority to impose its will over the majority. Or when it denies full representation to U.S. citizens, as is the case for Puerto Rico, which absolutely deserves self-determination. Pay no mind to those who argue that these moves would be unfair abuses of power. Really? Unfair, after what Trump and McConnell have done?

There’s nothing unfair about making our democracy fairer. There’s no abuse of power in remedying blatant abuses of power...https://robertreich.org/

[regnaD kciN]

1. The first and third points are good...

The second ("abolishing the Electoral College&quot , however, would require a constitutional amendment. The way Reich is proposing is, instead, for states to agree among themselves on the "Popular Vote Compact," which is almost certainly legally unenforceable should one state, after it has been signed by enough states to make it active, decide "screw this, we're voting for whoever we please." Anyone care to guess which party is likely to control the state that does that...?

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2. " abolishing the Electoral College," Oooooh I like that... nt

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3. "There's no abuse of power in remedying blatant abuses of power."

Yes.