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by spankalee 231 days ago
How in the world is minority rule better than majority rule?
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We don't have minority rule though, we have a balance.
What?

We absolutely do have minority rule. In both the Senate and the House, the Republican majorities represent a minority of the population.

Trump easily won the popular vote. What makes you say that they represent a minority of the population?

The fact that both the House and Senate are nearly 50% by party again points to the fact that we have a good balance.

Did I mention Trump?

The fact that we have minority rule in the Senate, House, and Supreme Court is exactly why we don't have any checks and balances any more and Trump gets to act like an emperor.

Again, you're saying "minority rule". But Trump (Republican) won the popular vote. So which party is the minority? Do you have another way of determining which party is the majority/minority besides votes for the President?

It seems clear that the majority in the 2024 election preferred Republican governance, and so they gained control over President/House/Senate.

Yes, minority rule. You keep bringing up the presidency, but I'm talking about the Senate.

Republicans have a majority in the Senate when their senators received a minority of votes, by about 24 million votes.

Trump got 49% of the votes cast, which is roughly a quarter of the US population.
Do you have a better way of determining which party is the "majority" in Congress? That is what we are discussing here. Whether the current makeup of Congress accurately represents the votes of the people or not.

Obviously I understand that not every person voted in the election (many are not even eligible). It is simply not relevant to this conversation, and is an often trotted out diversion meant to diminish the mandate given by the actual voters.

In this case it’s much simpler: the question was minority rule and you can see that power in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches is held by Republican politicians representing less than a majority—Trump is arguably the best claim they have on plurality since he is come very close to winning the popular vote since so many Democrats stayed home—and enacting policies which are very unpopular, in most cases policies which are unpopular even among registered Republicans.