>>>Maybe because its anointed a person who doesn't remotely reflect the majority of voters. You can't dodge this one. Trumps mandate is as solid as a Viennetta. Your MSM deplorables are the voice of the majority.
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>At the end of a game of Rugby, there is a score. Sometimes the score doesn't accurately match playing prowess- e.g. the team with 80% possession still can lose if the other side has an ace kicker.
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>If the team with 80% possession loses, you can congratulate them for playing well. But you cannot invent a new scoring system and pretend that possession can trump the final score.
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>These are the effects of rules agreed in advance by all the players and teams. It's terrible sportspersonship to lose and then try to change the rules to concoct a win for yourself. That's a recipe for anarchy if everybody else began being such a bad sport.
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>What cannot be dodged, is that Trump won according to the rules agreed by both candidates and teams in advance. Now he has mandate- by definition. And it cannot be dodged that some very poor sports are trying to retrofit alternative sets of rules to attack the winner- and claiming that it's done to protect the game of Rugby from the evil winning team.

FWIW, I'm making two arguments right now:

1) The Electoral College system should be scrapped for future elections.

2) Trump did not, by any definition, have a landslide, despite his claims of one. I'm arguing about this because we're about to have a President who regularly lies and expects to be believed and who wants to use those lies to advance his agenda. For example, his speeches for quite a while have talked about how the US has the highest murder rate in 40 years. It's a total lie, but if he gets people to believe it, then down the road, he can use the real statistics to claim that whatever he has done has lowered the murder rate. Similarly, if he convinces people that he had a landslide (and already a majority of Republicans believe he won the popular vote), he gains political capital. Since I think virtually everything he wants to do is bad for the US and the world, I want him to have as little political capital as possible.

Tamar