{"id":11746,"date":"2019-03-30T06:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11746"},"modified":"2019-03-30T06:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:07:44","slug":"proposed-voting-changes-are-about-power-not-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/proposed-voting-changes-are-about-power-not-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Voting Changes Are About Power, Not Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals lately about voting and voters. They include scrapping the 215-year-old Electoral College. Progressives also talk of extending the vote to 16- or 17-year-olds and ex-felons. They wish to further relax requirements for voter identification, same-day registration and voting, and undocumented immigrants voting in local elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2016 victory of Donald Trump shocked the Left. It was entirely unexpected, given that experts had all but assured a Hillary Clinton landslide. Worse still for those on the Left, Trump, like George W. Bush in 2000 and three earlier winning presidential candidates, lost the popular vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2017 on, Trump has sought systematically to dismantle the progressive agenda that had been established by his predecessor, Barack Obama\u2014often in controversial and unapologetic style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The furor over the 2016 Clinton loss and the new Trump agenda, the fear that Trump could be re-elected and anger about the Electoral College have mobilized progressives to demand changes to the hallowed traditions of electing presidents.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/27\/proposed-voting-changes-are-about-power-not-principles\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals lately about voting and voters. They include scrapping the 215-year-old Electoral College. Progressives also talk of extending the vote to 16- or 17-year-olds and ex-felons. They wish to further relax requirements for voter identification, same-day registration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1221],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12717,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-election-day-bridge-too-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":11746,"position":0},"title":"An Election Day Bridge Too Far","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review No wonder half the public is concerned about irregularities in the 2020 voting. 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