This is the same irrational mentality used to defend businesses or the wealthy from doing immoral or harmful things by arguing only that the behavior is legal.
Case in point, the electoral college was touted as the best thing since sliced bread prior to the 2016 election by Democrats because they were confident in the "blue wall" of the rust belt. After Trump sprayed WD-40 on in it and loosened up those voters, Democrats cried foul in unison solely because they lost.
If Clinton had been elected in 2016, she'd have gotten at least two SCOTUS picks and they'd all be loving the electoral college. But she didn't so here we are. Elections have consequences.
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In the time that I've been eligible to vote for president, the Democrats have won the popular vote 80% of the time, yet won the Presidency 40% of the time. And the Presidents we've gotten that didn't win the popular vote: they've been terrible, bottom of the barrel presidents. So it's not just the disparity in voting vs. outcome, it's the garbage that we've ended up with in the White House as a result.
The President is not elected by popular vote, so this is a meaningless statement.
> And the Presidents we've gotten that didn't win the popular vote: they've been terrible, bottom of the barrel presidents.
The people who voted for them would probably disagree with you.
> So it's not just the disparity in voting vs. outcome, it's the garbage that we've ended up with in the White House as a result.
You stating an opinion doesn't make it so.
It's merely a statement of fact.
> The people who voted for them would probably disagree with you.
And I'm sure that their mothers love them very much, too, but that's irrelevant.
> You stating an opinion doesn't make it so.
Of course not. The wreckage of their administrations—the hundreds of thousands of dead, the economy in freefall, our position of leadership in the world in tatters—makes it so.
Honestly, if you think that Trump, a person I find stupid, despicable, and generally bankrupt, has any responsibility for those things then appeals to reason are simply not going to work on you..
I was discussing several administrations; the current economy isn’t in freefall but it was after President George W. Bush.
Don't be so sure. At least three Republican Senators in 2016 (Ted Cruz, John McCain, and Richard Burr) suggested leaving Supreme Court vacancies unfilled during Clinton's entire term(s) if she were elected.