Trump: Between Democracy And Constitutionality
The Republican Donald Trump would be sworn in as the 45th substantive president of the United States after emerging as the preferred candidate of the electoral college of voters against popular majority in the November 8 presidential poll. That decision of the electoral college served Donald Trump that shocking win.
It was a political calculus that jolted even the highest of political reasoning that in a democratic combat of points, the fighter with over 2.8 million total votes tally lost out to the rival who walloped her with a paltry 200 restricted votes. The more surprising, however, is the irony of its acceptance as a workable result just because the constitution had sanctioned such unreasonable and 'unmathematical' calculation.
In the preference of Donald Trump, who had the majority electoral college votes over Clinton, who had majority in the popular votes, the Constitution outsmarted democracy. Clinton won more than 2.8 million more votes than Trump nationwide. But Trump won a majority of the 538 electoral votes — the system created by the nation's founders based on the size of a state’s congressional delegation. Thus, the question: Between democracy or constitutionality, what defines the political race?
The Constitution of the United States, it is understood, favored the decision of the elitist yet handful deciders against the common large popular electorates. The American Constitution, for reasons best known to the drafters was woven in such a way that when it comes to electing the president, there's an overriding power standing by to cross-check what has been the decision of the common voters.
This is a case of aristocratic egotism creeping into and waylaying democratic norms, and it really gives the Americans a poor rating of their standards. It beclouds their sense of moral duty to continue to lay claim as beacon of international democracy. America blundered by the obvious permission of this speckle that, though seemingly insignificant, has greatly robbed on their democratic worth.
The beauty, the idiosyncrasies of the whole build up to the polls that highlighted the American political razzmatazz and drew worldwide interest was shattered when all the excitements were on top climax by that heavy puncture. People around the world curiously follow, at each turn, the US pattern of democracy so as to learn and adopt, but it definitely was not to adopt the crazy decision where majority and popularity were dwarfed-in a democracy.
Democracy is a representative government, where the varied myriads of population are heard but the conspicuous majority having their way. Also, democracy forms the basis and the standpoint of what is the constitution, the agreement of outspoken popular decisions. As such, in democratic institutions is the true dictates and values of the constitution, serving the greater good, amplified and respected.
But how else has the child trounced its father; how else has democratic norm been superimposed by the constitution, if not in the victory that produced the Trump's presidency? The America that necessitated a Trump win tumbled the table and redefined what been democracy, it made a mess of democracy and a blunder of its world acclaim as a true democratic hub.
The US constitution, by its primal recognition of the electoral college, "the disaster for a democracy", cannot save the election of Donald Trump of this grievous injury it dealt on democracy. The constitutional satisfaction of this victory was at the expense of what true democracy represents. And definitely, except misconstrued, it is anomalous for a constitution to work against what engineers and sustains it.
With Trump's victory and ascendancy, cnstitutionality trumped democracy!
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