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How should the American people structure the government to prevent another Trump-like president (or worse) from ever getting elected as president in the future? (lemmy.world)

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How do we structure the government to prevent a another nutcase president from being elected?

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[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Funny thing is the current system should have prevented him but, corruption.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

The purpose of a system is what it does

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

No, the current system enabled him, because it doesn't take partisanship into account. The fabled checks and balances of the US constitution was created in a fantasy world where people of the same political party was meant to forget about that partisanship in favour of the plight of their office.

Actual realistic constitutions do not do that.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't it like... the exact reason... the electoral college exists?

Like... "Hey dumb shit voters, we don't trust you to not be deceived by a conman populist piece of shit, so we're going to have an elector make the final call whether the one you voted for should actually be allowed to win."

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Yes, but the electoral college has basically never functioned in that manner. People rightly argued that they should get what they vote for, thus electors in most states are legally bound to vote for the winning candidate.

There should be a role against winner take all. All of California doesn't vote Dem and all of Texas doesn't vote fascist. A proportional electoral college would have a more center left leaning.