Opinion: The 2020 Democratic aspirants radiate unseriousness
By George F. Will George F. Will Columnist covering politics and domestic and foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Columnist April 12 The Democrats’ presidential aspirants seem determined to prove that their party’s 2016 achievement — the election of the current president — was not a fluke that cannot be repeated.
Among the reasons these aspirants give for promising to abolish the electoral college is one reason that virtually guarantees it will not be abolished: Because each state gets two electoral votes for its senators, the system advantages the least populous states. Opposition by 13 states will extinguish any constitutional amendment.
President Trump must secretly admire Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s thoroughly Trumpian proposal — made where pandering is perfected: Iowa — to ban foreigners from buying U.S. farmland. Lest diabolical foreigners take our loam home? No, Warren says foreigners threaten “food security,” hence “national security,” too. Warren and Trump — he who sees a national security threat from imported Audis — are together at last.
The Financial Times notes that, in 2018, exit polls showed that a plurality of voters — 41 percent — ranked health care as their foremost concern. That was the year when it became obligatory for all candidates to promise that health insurance shall not be denied because of a person’s preexisting health problems.
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