Back in the days of blogging, there was something called “fisking” – the practice of painstakingly, paragraph by paragraph, examining, critiquing, fact-checking and (since blogs were like that) ridiculing someone’s bad argument.
It is possible to fisk a tweet?
Because Dan Crenshaw, a Republican member of the House from Texas, is sort of inviting it. Here’s what he said this weekend: “Abolishing the electoral college means that politicians will only campaign in (and listen to) urban areas. That is not a representative democracy. We live in a republic, which means 51% of the population doesn’t get to boss around the other 49%.” As it happens, I’m more or less neutral on the electoral college, and strongly against strict majoritarian democracy, but this is a bunch of nonsense. I’ll take it bit by bit. CONT.
Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg Opinion