The scenario we see as the most alarming was made possible by the Supreme Court itself. In a 2020 decision, the court held, in our reading, that state legislatures have the power to direct electors on how to cast their electoral votes. And this opens the door to what we think is the most dangerous strategy: that a legislature would pass a law that directs electors to vote for the candidate the legislature picks.
A party could also just remove delegates from any state that habitually votes for a more progressive option than the party wants…
It literally just happened in NH, but everyone is pretending it’s not an issue.
But if some billionaires bought off the right people running the DNC, at any general election they can wait till the last minute and nominate an actual Republican as the Dem candidate and there wouldn’t be a damn thing anyone can do.
I don’t know why no one wants to address this until it happens.
Didn’t we just learn from Trump’s four years that we can’t relay on people doing what they should and that we need to cosidy this shit so that we know the parties have to do the right thing?