This is a chart based on current (and projected) census data
Posted on 09/03/2018 3:17:12 PM PDT by upchuck
President Trump likes to complain about “Fake News.”
So, here’s some very real news for him:
Republican control of Capitol Hill and the White House is based on a “fake majority.”
“A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation’s population,” David Wasserman, an editor for The Cook Political Report, wrote in a recent New York Times column.
He added that the crucial Senate seats this November would be “much whiter, more rural and pro-Trump than the nation as a whole. In effect, geography could again be Mr. Trump’s greatest protector: After all, the Senate — not the House — would have the final say on any impeachment proceedings,” Wasserman argued.
Think about this — America’s politics are being run by a cabal in the Senate that fails to represent 82 percent of the American people.
For starters, the 18 percent controlling the Senate have their own right-wing agenda beyond protecting an unpopular president.
They want a Supreme Court majority that reflects their views and not the views of the majority of the people.
To take control of the court they blocked President Obama — a Democrat twice elected with a majority of the popular vote as well as a majority of the electoral college — for close to a year from appointing a centrist judge to the high court.
Senate Republicans, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa), who will preside over this week’s hearings, refused to even give Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a hearing, let alone an up or down vote.
And now having already replaced Garland and installed a solid conservative — Neil Gorsuch — the Senate Republicans, who represent fewer than 1-in-5 Americans, are about to force another conservative on the Supreme Court.
If they succeed in locking in another conservative, this time Judge Brett Kavanaugh, they will cement a conservative majority on the court for decades in an act that might be described as tyranny.
It is not just the Senate that is acting against the will of the majority.
Remember that both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were nominated by a president who lost the popular vote by almost three million votes.
A Nitwit for sure his kids are all republicans. He forgets who saved his career a conservative! Typical hypocrite like all the rest.......of the dnc even the part time Bartender Ocasio.....
They know what’s coming, they’re terrified, and they’re searching for excuses to say why their catastrophic loss was not legitimate.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Obama put two liberal judges on the court? Sotomayor and Kagan?
On the other hand, to disparage how "White" the Red States are is race-baiting. Imagine some Conservative going off on television about Democrat political power being based on dysfunctional ethnic ghettos.
It wasn’t fake in November of 2016 when he kicked HER ass.
That is by design!! Why? Because we are a Republic of States and not a pure democracy. They also conveniently left out that the Senate is only one branch of the government and was designed as a counterbalance to the House.
The ignorance and/or treachery of these people is astounding.
We wrote a Constitution so that our federal government represented both the people and and sovereign states. It was a brilliant arrangement that ensured that the coastal population centers would not dominate a growing country that was quickly spreading the frontiers to the West. It would be perfect for a current country with urban centers of the 21st Century that had more inhabitants, but were controlled by a single party and a population with very narrow points of view. Without the Constitution, we would be doomed. See what has happened to the UK.
Lots of butt hurt here. He’s become such an open Trump hater, anti-American, and anti-military talking head that he is insufferable. I’ll cheer the day he retires or is fired.
Juan Williams is the dumbest man on TV.
Juan, you lie for money every day of your miserable life.
You utterly lack character and integrity.
You are worthless to America.
Watta lot of hogwash.
The whiney other side had the chance to be heard. They had a candidate that represented their views. They had the chance to vote, too.
We won. Live with it......losers.
According to the lefties, interpreting the constitution as written is now tyranny.
Juan is illiterate an RETARDED when it comes to understanding why there is a Senate and why there is a House.
Each are there for a reason, Juan, you moron!!!! Go back to fifth grade history class.
Another overpaid affirmative action ignoramous at work........
Well then. It’s time we give the leftards A whooping can of tyranny come Tuesday..
This is a chart based on current (and projected) census data
Flood the us with unchecked immigration, illegal and legal and then complain when whites won’t vote against their self interest. Juan Williams is a traitor.
Juan knows exactly the truth about the mechanics of the Constitution. It doesn’t play well with his base though.
Juan’s brain is fake. Might be tapioca or hummus or something.
so Juan is quoting Wasserman who thinks that America is 18% white? do what?
and, by arguing that ‘Hillary won by 3 million popular votes” is Wasserman, and Juan, condoning mob rule? In that case, minorities need to go sit in the corner then because they’re forever outnumbered in a caucasian country, same as Caucasians are outnumbered in a minority country. But that’s not how the US is designed to operate - even the smallest voice, the smallest population state, has an equal voice. Were it not so, there would be no gay pride parades. Wasserman, and Juan, need to crack open their third grade civics books and learn something.
Wow. Juan is really bouncing his butt on his thumb...
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