election in time to meet the december 19th deadline of when the electors all meet in the various state capitols. there s a law on one hand, then there s a deeper cultural sense of what an election mean and how democracy sort of depends on basically consensus agreement in the legitimacy of the process. it is a compact amongst all the people. one of the foundational elements of what we do as a country is that you win an election or you lose an election. sometimes elections are really, really close and people get passionate about it. that was certainly bush versus gore in florida, but at the end of the day, the institutions of government you see me biting my tongue. i did. i did. i wanted to put you in that position. that is actually a great example, right, bush v. gore because people felt they should have contested it longer. one of the weird things about watching the trump phenomena
sense of what an election mean and how democracy sort of depends on basically consensus agreement in the legitimacy of the process. it is a compact amongst all the people. one of the foundational elements of what we do as a country is that you win an election or you lose an election. sometimes elections are really, really close and people get passionate about it. that was certainly bush versus gore in florida, but at the end of the day, the institutions of government you see me biting my tongue. i did. i did. i wanted to put you in that position. that is actually a great example, right, bush v. gore because people felt they should have contested it longer. one of the weird things about watching the trump phenomena happen. you go along taking certain parts of the framework of american democracy for granted but all of a sudden it s thrown into relief. do you feel that watching this happen? this is certainly a different kind of election, but again the