This 'Moderate' Democrat Is Also on Board With Abolishing the Electoral College

Another day, another "moderate" who turns out to hold the exact same position as the rest of the party. This time it's abolishing the Electoral College, a proposal that used to live on the fringe and now gets nodded through by people the press insists on describing as pragmatic, centrist, reasonable. If that's moderation, the word has stopped meaning anything.

Here's what's actually being proposed: junking a system that forces candidates to build coalitions across Iowa and Nevada and Michigan, not just rack up votes in Los Angeles and Manhattan. The Electoral College is why a Democrat can't win the presidency by running up the score in three coastal cities and ignoring everywhere else. That's not a design flaw. That's the whole point of a country this big and this varied.

What's telling is the label. Reporters keep reaching for "moderate" to describe politicians who agree with the base on the structure of American government itself, as if moderation is now just a tone of voice rather than an actual set of positions. Say it politely, smile a little, and suddenly you're the reasonable one, even while pushing a change that would hand permanent advantage to a handful of megacities.

We'd have more respect for the honesty of it if these Democrats just said what they mean: they don't like the results the current system produces, so they want a different system. That's a real argument, and it deserves a real fight, not a soft-focus profile calling it moderate.