The Constitution Crisis and the Electoral College

Matt Welch: It's at least possible to imagine a scenario in which Democrats over a multiple periods of cycles win the presidency, largely on the strength of non-white votes. But that Republicans have a kind of Senate bastion based on these low population overwhelmingly white states would set the United States up for a dangerous kind of clash. The Senate has always not been representative, but there's rarely been a sort of systematic, stark partisan dimension to that skew. If you look at the future, you can see a path toward that happening and it would be a real problem for the country because there's no mechanism to change the Senate. Since the turn of the millennium, 40% of the presidential elections