End of Story, Trump is Our Next President

Clinton got "65,844,954" votes to Trump’s "62,979,879." So yes, she won the popular vote. But those are not the only numbers Americans need to know about the heated race that left a leftist movement stunned and disoriented. Clinton won California by “4.2 million votes and New York by 1.6 million,” meaning that across 48 of the 50 states, Trump was the victor by about 3 million votes in the popular vote. Including New York, he was the popular vote winner by more than a million votes. Vice President-elect Pence put it in another perspective, revealing that Trump won “30 out of 50 states, and 2,623 counties, to Clinton’s 20 states or 489 counties.”

The constitutional reality is that the “nation’s founders set up a system where there would be a popular vote, but the actual decision is made by 538 members of the Electoral College, members appointed largely by political parties in the states, with one designated for each congressional district or U.S. Senate seat in Congress.” In many states they are legally obligated to vote the way their state’s voters do. The Electoral College was set up to assure that a handful of population centers across the country cannot in perpetuity control the presidency. That’s well illustrated by the 2016 results, where Trump won vast swaths of America, but still came up short in the popular vote because of the results, essentially, in one state, California. The Electoral College addresses that because the minimum number of states a candidate must win, and these include the large population centers, to win the presidency, is 12 states.

There, Trump won 306 on election night, and ended up with 304 after two, influenced by what has been described as a “coup” attempt trying to prevent him from taking office, voted against the wishes of their states’ voters. Hillary Clinton ended up with 227, having lost five faithless electors of the 232 she won on election night.

There are some in the Democrat party who are simply not going to acclimate to a President Trump. He is, from their standpoint, appalling or ignoble or… They live in a delusional world. Worse yet, many apparently suffer from persecutory delusions. That’s why they lost the election: they decided to join the ranks of the incorrigibility delusional. 

In summation: The Republicans -- that horrid "minority party" that has somehow hijacked the reins of power by exploiting an "arcane framework" (Electoral College) -- will control fully two-thirds of  America's governorships in 2017.  Only "16 of 50" states will have a Democratic chief executive. Unfortunately, North Carolina, my state of residence is one of the 16. And since many liberal pundits choose to cite population percentages to diminish the legitimacy of the Senate, allow me to mention that the "33 states" with Republican leaders represent a large majority of the US population -- nearly "200 million people," in total.  Furthermore, the GOP will hold majorities in a staggering, sweeping "68 of America's 99 state legislative bodies." That all-time high represents complete dominance, left unremarked upon in an extended harangue about minority rule.  Maybe the neo-left ignored these figures because, like many liberals, they are myopically fixated on the power of the federal government.  But our founders vested enormous power in the states, just as they designed a Senate that would serve as a backstop against sheer nationwide majoritarianism (not really a word but you get my point).  It may therefore be worthwhile for left-leaning politicians and pundits alike to spend less time whining about an “arcane framework” and more time examining how Democrats must expand their appeal beyond coastal liberals and urbanites.