Jan 6 Committee refers Trump (and others) for criminal charges

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(01-10-2023, 03:51 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: People who are within the highest ranks of the GOP will tell you they do not believe in democracy and that "We the people" shouldn't have the right to choose who's voted into federal office.  It should be decided by the state legislatures, and it's the bureaucrat's opinions are all that matter. The GOP does not believe we live in a democracy, they believe we live in a republic.  While that is true in part, we live in a Republic of democratically elected officials.  The GOP is out to remove all areas of "We the people" democracy and have us ruled by an autocrat, thus living under a fascist government.   

The GOP of 2016 going forward is night and day from your grandad's GOP of Reagan and George H W Bush. 

Indeed.
It's a big reason the Electoral College is even a thing.

If the president were decided purely by the popular vote, George W. Bush wouldn't have been president in 2000 and Trump wouldn't have been president in 2016.

It's also speculated that if the Electoral College was abolished and the presidency were decided purely by the popular vote, Republicans (at least in their current form) would never win another election.