It's time to end the Electoral College

It's time to end the Electoral College 

No, it's not. It's time to end the Curia and papal appointment of bishops. Ending the Electoral College means ending the Senate and the Presidency, letting the Speaker become head of state and government. Keeping the presidency without the Senate is like the French system. 

Dispensing with the presidency means being Britain.  Pelosi would be our current leader. We would have just ended the Paul Ryan administration. Before that, Boehner. Hastert shut down all minority rights to create a coalition of the minority and a portion of the majority outside leadership. The word you are looking for is tyranny,

This nation had government by Speaker in the late nineteenth century. What started as the Republicans turned into government by Wall Street. The Senate existed as an industrial house, because industries would essential buy Senators by contributing to state legislative campaigns.

Our real problem is that the nation is too big to govern. The White House staff, when functioning other than a collection of court jesters, has an out sized influence on anything the President is not working. Our incompetent President with a collection of jesters, including the Vice President, is an aberration. When I was an undergraduate taking Civil Liberties, I learned the standard phrase. Hard cases make bad law. This is one of those cases.

Regional government is a better answer than ending the EC and Senate. To avoid large state domination, a Senate and Electoral College selecting regional vice presidents would be an essential feature. Regions would run all domestic large government functions like highways, water quality, domestic military bases (but not the missile sites), retirement security, etc. Civil and workers rights, aviation safety, environmental enforcement, printing money, economic analysis, space exploration, diplomacy and strategic and overseas military affairs would remain national. 

If regions want more government, they could pay higher taxes. If they want less, they pay lower taxes. The bread basket would be its own region - from Washington to Wisconsin in the north to Kansas and Missouri in the south. There is more detail and a map if you are interested in a model. Nothing less would cure what ails us. 

The only constitutional amendments required would be allowing a regional value added tax and having regions elect their own RVP. Ultimately, the RVPs and each regional house and senate would each have a vote to elect the President and Vice President. We would need an amendment for that too. Donald Trump would have never have been elected. The main Trump dysfunction, however, was that Vice President Pence has no moral courage. 

Trumpism, however, will not last. Once his creditors make it clear that his wealth was a mirage, his voters will flee and forget they ever knew him. In the end, his administration will be a footnote in American history. It will hardly merit a page, maybe two. Look in current books about the Harding Administration. History does not say much about failures, which is a pity. It is why we relive it every so often. Even today, the Texas case does not get top billing on SCOTUS Blog.