Could Removing Trump from The Ballot be the Most Democratic Decision of All?
The Majority of Americans Might Welcome a Supreme Court Rescue
An under-discussed aspect of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling is the YouGov poll showing that by a 54-35% margin, Americans support it.
That should not rule the day. The Constitution and proper interpretation should rule the day. However, it's an interesting data point when the idea that removing Trump from the ballot would be undemocratic is all the rage.
The majority of Americans doesn't have special insight into the interpretation of the 14th Amendment. I don't think they much care about it. They simply want Trump out of their lives: Criminal conviction, ballot disqualification. It's all the same to them.
In some quarters, it's popular to blame the people for the government we have. Yet, I grow more skeptical of that thinking every year. Voters can only do the best with the choices you give them, and if all you give them are bad choices, the results are simply garbage in, garbage out.
Right now, our dysfunctional two-party system is driving us towards a rematch of the 2020 election that the vast majority of voters don't want. While I still hope that No Labels emerges with a plausible alternative, I think it's hard to imagine that politicians shaped by the two-party system are going to pull the trigger.
If not, we're likely left with a bad result regardless of who wins with only implausible gadflies as alternatives. Americans recognize that, and I think that's why the gut reaction, by a 19-point margin, is to hope that the Supreme Court saves them from the madness the two parties are trying to foist on them. Removing Trump may or may not be Constitutional, but it's what the people want.