The Constitution <em>Is</em> the Crisis
The system is rigged, and it’s the Constitution that’s doing the rigging.
The Democrats running for president this year seem to be converging on a new and notable consensus for the party: Innovative policy ideas are not enough. The “system” needs reform. Most notably, several candidates are strongly—and correctly, in my view—calling for the elimination of the Electoral College. Some candidates have also gotten behind proposals to pack the Court and to eliminate the filibuster, all strategies for overcoming what they see as a fundamentally dysfunctional system of government.
But hovering over the Democratic debate are incredibly tough circumstances
