What the people who now want us to ignore the Fourteenth Amendment are arguing is that certain aspects of the Constitution ought to be nullified merely by their unpopularity—not even necessarily among a majority of voters but among a subset of extra-special voters. This is not a standard applied to any other aspect of the American Constitution in any other circumstance. It is an entirely novel standard invented for the benefit of Donald Trump. In effect, they are arguing for a set of unwritten Trump Rules that would exempt the former president from broadly applicable standards.
It’s a really good article and everyone should read it in full.
What if Bush got to just decide after the votes were tallied if he wanted the electoral college to apply for that election cycle or not? The rules agreed to before an election are by definition democratic. It would be undemocratic to day “well we have always played by the rules but this time they don’t favor me so let’s just not use that rule this time?”
It’s weird you pick Bush when that election also wasn’t a democratic process. The US Supreme Court decided who would be the president - as it is trying to do again.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore#:~:text=The Court ruled 5–4,as provided in 3 U.S.C.
I just picked a name, but yes someone like Kerry or Clinton would make more sense as they literally would have won their elections if they could have just flipped a switch to turn the EC off.