Thread by @AuronMacintyre

Conservatives love to say “We’re not a democracy we’re a constitutional republic” but of course that’s not really true and it gets less true by the day

When the will of the people is your legitimating mechanism mass democratization will slowly consume everything 🧵/1

https://twitter.com/frankluntz/status/1706435929798492239

The dialectical energy always moves in the direction of removing restrictions and expanding benefits

There’s always a political incentive to expand the franchise and remove barriers to the popular will /2

Conservatives think that allowing illegal immigrants to vote or removing the electoral college are ridiculous proposals, but they have no real argument against them because they’ve already bought into the logic of mass democracy /3

The US has vastly expanded the franchise, removed the fundamental differentiation from their two legislative houses by mandating the direct election of senators, and altered the election of presidential candidates through the primary process /4

The electoral college will inevitably fall because it can’t withstand the universal acid of popular will, which conservatives have completely bought in to /5

Illegals will inevitably receive amnesty and the franchise will be extended to them because conservatives have already bought into the idea that hat mass participation in government is the essence of America, it would contradict their own ideology to deny it /6

Democracy will inevitably consume itself because it has to

Once you embrace the tenets of mass democracy there’s no real argument against letting it destroy any limiting institutions /7

Conservatives are in bad spot because their goals and their ideology do not align, and they have been told that looking outside that ideology a betrayal of their values

But nothing could be further from the truth 8/8