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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/election-fact-check-transgender-issues-trump-harris/story?id=115349047

26 Ibid

27 Amanpour & Co. “SCOTUS and the Trans Rights Healthcare Case: Why It Matters | Amanpour and Company,” 11 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqMCnXvZ3jE

28 Ibid

29 Ibid

30 Oakeshott, Michael. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (New York: Basic Books, 1962).

31 Brooks, David. “Broke America: The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.”, The Atlantic, 14 November 2024; and, Brooks, David. “Don’t end American meritocracy. Make it better,” The Atlantic, 15 November 2024.

32 Wai, Jonathan. “Harvard Graduates Have a Disproportionate Impact on Society,” Forbes, 9 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanwai/2024/12/09/the-harvard-effect/

33 Ibid

34 Sandel, Michael. “Winners and Losers,” The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good (United Kingdom: Allen Lane, 2020), 20.

35 Ibid

36 Timothy W. Ryback, "How Hitler Dismantled Democracy in 53 Days: He used teh constitution to shatter the constitution," The Atlantic,, 6 January 2025.

37Starcevic, Seb. "Trump launches savage attack on bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for minorities," Politico, 22 January 2025. Retrieved from: https://www.politico.eu/article/donld-trump-launches-savage-attack-on-bishop-mariann-budde-who-asked-for-mercy-for-minorities-lgbtq-immigrants/

U.S. Election Postmortem (Part Two) - What It Means

1 Cohen, Richard. “Electoral college is unfair to most Americans,” The Washington Post, October 22, 2012. Retrieved from:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-electoral-college-is-unfair-to-most-americans/2012/10/22/1635c7f0-1c74-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_story.html

2 Ibid

3 Retrieved from: http://www.fairvote.org/problems_with_the_electoral_college

4 Ibid

5 See: National Popular Vote, Retrieved from: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation; and see, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Wikipedia. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact#External_links

6 Hilbink, Lisa. “U.S. Supreme Court Justices Is a Global Oddity with Clear Costs,” The Brennan Center for Justice, 20 November 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2024-11/comparative_high_court_term_limits.pdf

7 Nader, Ralph. Retrieved from:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/unreasonableman/twoparty.html

8 Ibid

9 Ballotpedia. “Partisan affiliations of registered voters.” Retrieved from: https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_affiliations_of_registered_voters

• As of March 2024, 45 million registered voters in these areas identified themselves as Democrats. At 38.28%, Democrats represented the single largest share of registered voters in the states and territories that allow voters to indicate partisan affiliation on their registration forms.

•A total of 35.7 million registered voters identified themselves as Republicans, representing 30.35% of registered voters in these areas.

•A total of 32.5 million registered voters identified themselves as independents or unaffiliated with any political party. This amounted to 27.67% of registered voters in these areas.

•Approximately 4.3 million registered voters identified themselves as members of other political parties. This amounted to 3.7% of registered voters in these areas.

10 Kamisar, Ben. “The final price tag on 2024 political advertising: Almost $11 billion: That includes more than $3 billion in ad spending on the presidential race alone, according to AdImpact, an ad tracking firm,” NBCNews, 8 November 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/final-price-tag-2024-political-advertising-almost-11-billion-rcna179341

11 Julia Ingram and Steve Reilly. “Elon Musk spends $277 million to back Trump and Republican candidates,” CBS News, 6 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-277-million-trump-republican-candidates-donations/

12 Albert Serna Jr. and Anna Massoglia. “Big money, big stakes: 5 things everyone should know