The mask is officially off!
“Moderate” Democrat Governor Andy Beshear appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation and laid out a breathtaking left-wing agenda designed to completely shred the United States Constitution.
During the interview, the Democrat governor of a deep-red state casually floated a sweeping constitutional overhaul he branded a “Fix the Darn Government” amendment, as if inserting a folksy “darn” somehow makes the radicalism more palatable.
Asked by host Ed O’Keefe for his “biggest, boldest idea,” Beshear delivered this:
“Well, I’ll give you two, because people want you to fix the darn economy and they want you to fix the darn government… people also think this government is broken. So a Fix the Darn Government constitutional amendment, it is time. It should outlaw partisan redistricting and enshrine part of the Voting Rights Act right there in the Constitution. It should create term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court. No more gaming those appointments. It should also overturn Citizens United, and I think call for direct elections of the president and the vice president. That could actually make things work.”
O’Keefe pressed him: “I didn’t realize you support abolishing the Electoral College. If you’re saying direct election of the president and vice president?”
Beshear didn’t blink:
“Yeah, I’ve said it a number of times, and it’s because in Kentucky we will never see a candidate for president or vice president unless they’re from here. Why? Because people just expect that it’ll go one way or the other. It’s the idea that someone would get elected not just knowing about 7 states, but having to earn votes all over the United States. I certainly think it’s time.”
WATCH:
There it is. The Democrat governor of Kentucky wants to scrap the system the Founders carefully designed to prevent pure majoritarian rule by the largest population centers.
He wants candidates to chase every last vote in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago instead of having to compete in the heartland. And he claims this will somehow force them to care more about Kentucky.
Reality check: Without the Electoral College, states like Kentucky become even more irrelevant. Candidates would spend their time racking up margins in dense urban blue strongholds.
Rural and small-state voters, the exact people Beshear pretends to champion, would be drowned out by California and New York. The system Beshear wants to “fix” is the one that still forces presidential candidates to at least pretend flyover country exists.
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