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WaPo: 'Give Elites a Bigger Say in Choosing President'

Keely Compson

Should the elite have more of a say in who is president of the United States? According to an op-ed on the Washington Post, they should.

On Tuesday, Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari published an article on WaPo titled: “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.”

In the piece, she describes the Democratic Party as getting off to a "rocky start" and then suggests that choosing the nominee should be up to politicians instead of the people.

Breitbart reports:

The current process is clearly flawed, but what would be better? … A better primary system would empower elites to bargain and make decisions, instructed by voters.

One lesson from the 2020 and 2016 election cycles is that a lot of candidates, many of whom are highly qualified and attract substantial followings, will inevitably enter the race. The system as it works now — with a long informal primary, lots of attention to early contests and sequential primary season that unfolds over several months — is great at testing candidates to see whether they have the skills to run for president. What it’s not great at is choosing among the many candidates who clear that bar, or bringing their different ideological factions together, or reconciling competing priorities. A process in which intermediate representatives — elected delegates who understand the priorities of their constituents — can bargain without being bound to specific candidates might actually produce nominees that better reflect what voters want.

Azari also suggests that parties use “preference primaries,” which would “allow voters to rank their choices among candidates, as well as to register opinions about their issue priorities.”

Washinton Post is currently under fire for the piece.

After a perfunctory voting process, wlites would be able to choose a nominee based on information about what the voters want.

She acknowledges that the idea is “labor-intensive and a little risky.”

The Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who is the world’s richest man. The paper’s slogan, adopted as an intended rebuke to President Donald Trump, is “Democracy dies in darkness.”

That phrase was trending on Twitter on Wednesday morning as readers reacted ironically to the op-ed.

 

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