Revisiting the Electoral College Compromise

Revisiting the Electoral College Compromise

“I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct,” author David Remnick said in a 2016 interview with Spiegel International. He’s not alone in that belief. It’s “made our society less and less democratic,” Pete Buttigieg said during his 2020 presidential campaign. Bayard Rustin, a 20th-century political activist, wrote that it’s “potentially very dangerous.” Those on the other side of the debate, of course, disagree. “The Elect…