Election Returns

[Shad]

The GOP didn't want to avoid having Nazis run as official Republican candidates?

No they didn't want it's leadership to decide who runs or not. The positive side is no one can claim outright the leadership is rigging a nomination. The negative is they can not remove people as per the one being discussed to Trump. GOP leadership, imo, would have denied Trump completely thus lost the election.

You certainly didn't get a president from the Canadian system that has no president.

My point is the system you described still resulted in someone completely unqualified for office. Less qualified than Trump is.

Not sure of your point here. Is your goal good governance or just "not Parliament?"

My point is you are describing a system the US is designed to avoid. The FFs were not big on the flaws of parliament.

Good governance requires more than the masses voting for someone popular. At times voters are the direct cause of a horrible government.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I can't see anything wrong with it, but both parties want as many members and voters they can get. If they start imposing stricter requirements for membership, then they would have fewer members.

Then they can be expected to handle things themselves. Why interfere?

Do you really think you need to force organizations to act in their own self-interest?

 

[Stevicus]

Then they can be expected to handle things themselves. Why interfere?

Do you really think you need to force organizations to act in their own self-interest?

Who said anything about force? If they nominate a Nazi and end up losing the election, then the consequences are theirs alone. If they win, though, that's another matter.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Who said anything about force?

This whole time, we've been talking about the American legal framework. Specifically, we were talking about the states where the state lets anyone who says they're a supporter of a particular party vote in the primary for that party.

 

[Stevicus]

This whole time, we've been talking about the American legal framework. Specifically, we were talking about the states where the state lets anyone who says they're a supporter of a particular party vote in the primary for that party.

I thought we were talking about the internal processes within a given political party regarding how they choose candidates to represent the party in an election. If a private organization allows its membership to choose its leaders and candidates for public office, then they're stuck with the results and the consequences that would entail. Nobody's forcing them to do it one way or the other. If the members of that party selected a Nazi to represent them, then that's who they've chosen.