Jesse Wegman

I mean, one of the reasons I wrote the Electoral College book back in 2020 was the election twice in the century to that point of the person who won fewer votes.

That's a fundamental violation of majority rule, right?

You know, majority rule is at the heart of Wilson's

theory of government.

Why?

Because majority rule is the only way that we ensure political equality.

It's the only way that you count all votes as equal.

Any other method, by definition, counts some votes as worth more than others.

So, you know, this violation of majority rule, I think, is at the heart of so much of what ails us today.

You know, both George W. Bush in 2000,

And then Donald Trump in 2016 were elected to the White House with fewer votes than their opponent.

And I really think that there's a toxin there, that people feel that their wishes as a majority are not being represented.

And that leads to all these other problems that we see every day now.

I think the Senate itself is obviously a – by design, a non-majoritarian institution.

The House of Representatives is technically majoritarian but with partisan gerrymandering kind of spiraling out of control now with the help of the Supreme Court.

We are finding that fewer and fewer people feel represented by that House of Congress.

So on every level of government, you have this sense that what a majority of the people want is not being reflected in their government.

And that I think Wilson understood that 250 years ago as being what he called a poison contaminating the government.

And that was why he fought so hard to make sure that there were mechanisms –

to ensure majority rule would be the way we governed.