This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

With Victor Davis Hanson, Professor Classicist at Hoover Institution,

the author of the new book The Dying Citizen,

How Progressive elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are destroying

the ideas of America. The middle class, the citizen, a foundation for the success of the

United States, around and built upon and depending upon the Constitution of the United

State. Victor addresses in his book what he characterizes as evolutionaries.

These are men and women in America, perhaps around the world, who find the Constitution no longer

useful. Victor, we begin with the example that comes up now and again when the popular vote

goes to the loser in a presidential contest.

This is a critical aspect of the Constitution.

It was hammered out in the arguments in Philadelphia, the electoral college.

Why is the electoral college said to be inadequate?

And what is it that the unelected want to do with it?

Thank you.

Well, it came into, that argument came in vogue again in 2000 when George W. Bush lost the popular vote.

He won Florida, which put him over the top, and people felt that he had been, if you remember, the slogan,

selected rather than elected. And then Donald Trump, it came back again in 2016.

Let me just point out that between 2008 and 2016,

there was no discussion whatsoever about the pathologies electoral college.

Instead, we heard there was something called the Wonderful Blue Wall.

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