David Frum tweet: Trump was not "democratically elected"- he lost by 2.9 million votes

[Dennis Donovan]

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David Frum ✔ @davidfrum

Trump was not "democratically elected" - he lost by 2.9 million votes. He was "constitutionally elected," by an 18th century constitutional design that includes a ban on foreign bribes to the president and that offers impeachment and removal as a remedy for bribe-seeking

Mickey Kaus @kausmickey

I suppose if the Respectable Interagency Consensus on Ukraine is willing to righteously remove a democratically elected president -- in Ukraine (2014) -- it's not such a big step to justify doing the same thing in the US.

8:13 AM - Nov 13, 2019

[spooky3]

1. Brilliant! Nt

[SlogginThroughIt]

2. I actually think this is a poor response.

It doesn’t matter if he was democratically elected or not. He committed impeachable offenses. Getting baited into this being about the election is the response they want so that they can say we are trying to reverse the election.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. He was bringing it back to the Constitution. n/t

[Fritz Walter]

7. Agreed

One might argue that the RusspubliCONs are trying to reverse the results of the 2018 election, but we should stay away from their briar patch and stay focused on treason, and high crimes and misdemeanors.

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. It was a clever way to connect the claim to the Constitution...

And point out Trump's offense is impeachable as the drafters of our Constitution intended it to be.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Too many forget that he lost the popular vote.

Of course, a lot of the MAGAts believe that the popular vote was rigged because supposedly 3 million illegal immigrants voted in California. There is no proof of that, unless you consider Trump himself to be a valid source. They want to believe it, though, so they do.

[Freddie]

5. Frum is a "conservative intellectual"

There’s an oxymoron - anyway it’s good to see some on the other side coming to the correct conclusion.

[luvtheGWN]

13. Well, Frum was born and grew up in Canada

and we Canucks take our Canadian and American history quite seriously. I'd be willing to bet that From could outlast any American in a history "bee". And I forgive him for his turn as W's speecchwriter and advisor. I think he knows better, now!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. He can't have one but not other. EC & impeached/resign or No EC & cede Presidency to Hillary. . . nt

[The Wizard]

8. Actually

the 2.9 million was only for Hillary. Another 7 million voted 3rd Party.

[catbyte]

9. Dang, I miss the days when I disagreed with every word that David Frum wrote or said, or for

that matter, everything that Rick Wilson, George Will, Bill Kristol, Anna Navarro Cardenas, Jennifer Rubin, even Nicolle Wallace & Steve Schmidt said. It's like I'm living in some Bizarro World/Twilight Zone. I feel like a battered woman/PTSD survivor. And I'm not saying that lightly or jokingly. I feel emotionally damaged by that thing currently infesting the White House and by all of that thing's apologists in Congress and his goddamned cult.

[Cosmocat]

11. Yeah, no Frum fan, but that was a kill shot response

nm

[progressoid]

12. Not quite a great smack down.

Kind of hard to disparage the constitution if we need to use that same constitution to investigate the pResident.

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. He's not disparaging the Constitution.

He used a refutation of the democratically elected claim to point out the same Constitution that enabled Trump's election is the same document that prohibits his behavior and is what makes impeaching him for it possible.

[progressoid]

18. Right.

[Cha]

14. Scorch! the psycho lies about his popular

vote.. he can't take it that Hillary got more Millions More Votes.

[Tarheel_Dem]

15. K&R