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  1. modelcitizen.substack.com

    This Dispatch piece by Jonah Goldberg is extremely useful in illustrating the centrality of anti-majoritarianism on the right. Jonah has been a consistent critic of Trump and the GOP's loony, violent, authoritarian turn. However, even the most reasonable, principled, philosophical conservatives tend to be wary of majoritarian democracy, as Jonah illustrates in his case against what he calls ...
  2. rollcall.com

    Jan 31, 2023In recent years, these anti-democratic aspects of the federal government have also been mostly anti-Democratic: Democrats won the popular vote while losing the Electoral College in 2016 and 2000 ...
  3. Admittedly, the term "democratic" is sometimes used as just a kind of synonym for "good" or "just," rather than in the more narrow sense of referring to governance by majoritarian political ...
  4. democraticunderground.com

    Will Wilkinson: The Anti-Majoritarian Mistake Link to tweet ... Moreover, I suspect that neither the Trump presidency nor the GOP's authoritarian, illiberal, anti-democratic turn would have come to pass if not for the fact that most conservatives were already convinced that democracy is at best an incidental, instrumental aspect of a free ...
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    The counter-majoritarian difficulty (sometimes counter-majoritarian dilemma) is a perceived problem with judicial review of legislative (or popularly-created) laws. As the term suggests, some oppose or see a problem with the judicial branch's ability to invalidate, overrule, or countermand laws that reflect the will of the majority.. The counter-majoritarian difficulty is often raised in ...
  6. The electoral college is a vestige of a compromise between people who thought the legislature should elect the president and those who thought the people should. I also wouldn't exactly describe it as anti-majoritarian in design, it more so has flaws that allow a majority to be overruled. It also made more sense when the nation was young.
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