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In a potential blow to the “Donald Trump is NOT a fascist!” crowd, the president-elect has made a fascist-adjacent demand: He wants to install government officials without Senate approval. You may have heard Trump promoting “recess appointments” lately. That provision…

Every four years, Americans practice some peculiar math. No other country still uses a system like the Electoral College to select a national executive by indirect vote. It was enshrined in the Constitution as a compromise between letting Congress choose…