Lincoln Project's Dan Quisling still doesn't get it

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“What mandate? I don’t see no stinkin’ mandate!”

Since the election, the word “mandate” has been used by President-elect Trump and his supporters to describe his victory on November 5. In American political terms a mandate occurs when an election result reflects broad support for a candidate and his/her policy agenda.

With the exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, the electoral college votes in each state are winner take all. As a result, the country has experienced a number of elections where razor thin margins in the popular vote in a handful of battleground states have resulted in candidates winning those electoral votes, but not the overall popular vote. I would argue that, in a presidential election, a broad and decisive win in the popular vote should be the true measure of an election mandate.

The country decisively rejected the woke agenda Quisling and his confederates have been foisting on the public since 2008, but more important to the prospects of this poor has-been so desperate to regain a power position in the Greenwich Republican Party, the Old Guard GOP has been discarded into the dustbin of history. It’s not coming back, and its members will have slink back to their yacht clubs, order up their gin and tonics, and reflect on what was.

Good riddance.