There has been many calls for the Electors to reject Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton instead, with most citing the justification that Hillary won the popular vote by over 2.6 million votes. While that may sound good on the surface it IS in fact a non-starter!
Until and unless such time as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact becomes a reality, there is NO WAY that the EC will reject Donald Trump and put Hillary Clinton in his place! And not just because she lost the election based on current law but also and probably even more importantly it is because many of them simply hate Hillary!
To even suggest that they reject Donald Trump for Hillary is ludicrous on its face — it simply will NOT happen, at least not without 100% concrete evidence that the election was rigged and that Hillary would have been elected had the election not been rigged! And let’s face it: that is NOT going to happen, certainly not at this stage in the election!
The bottom line is that if they elected Hillary over Trump, it would very likely trigger a Civil War!
But I am convinced there is another path that the EC can and SHOULD take to reject Donald Trump on December 19th!
Part of the reason the EC system even exists is to prevent a demagogue and supremely unqualified President elect from being voted into the highest office in America. That the electors have never had to step in and overturn the election throughout history is immaterial because we are where we are.
The EC is intended to be the last safeguard to prevent exactly what we are faced with NOW from happening — in other words to prevent a fascist and demagogue like Donald Trump from becoming the most powerful person in the world!
The evidence that Trump is a demagogue and completely unfit to be President could not be more obvious or compelling and the Electors would do well to seriously consider their Constitutional responsibilities!
See:
time.com/...
avalon.law.yale.edu/…
for some more information on why the Electors should reject Trump.
A key quote from the Time link above:
For a long time, I believed that Trump was not a demagogue because he didn’t mirror the masses and because he didn’t threaten governance. But when he began openly posturing as a mirror of the masses and courting unlawfulness and even violence, I concluded that he had, in fact, become a demagogue, which meant that he also crossed the line into a clear Constitutional danger zone, according to the Founding Fathers.
What should the Electors do instead? Glad you asked. :)
They could change their vote to another Republican — anyone other than Pence or Cruz would be a far better and less dangerous President than Trump.
I don’t have much faith that the electors will take this seriously enough and overturn Trump’s election but they certainly should do so!
If there was ever a time for the electors to do this — it is NOW.
We are in uncharted territory and since there is no precedent for this ever having been done I fear they will not choose to take the risk — but the point of fact is that this is truly one of the reasons why the EC exists, to prevent a demagogue like Trump from becoming President.
This should be what we call on the Electors to do and electing another Republican over Trump is something they might actually be willing to seriously consider. I’m not holding my breath on that but to me it is incredibly clear that asking them to overturn the election against Trump and giving it to Hillary is simply not going to happen!
Right now, we should be looking at any possible way to mitigate and reduce the damage that Trump and his Republicans could bring to America over the next 4 years.
In closing: asking the Electors to elect Hillary over Trump is likely to backfire and turn them off to the whole concept of overturning Trump’s election! Let’s ask them for something that actually stands at least a chance of bearing fruit.