From Infidel753:
…..from our discussions of the Electoral College. The phrase is “minority rule”.
As the EC comes under scrutiny for delivering the Presidency to Trump despite his large margin of loss (now approaching 2,500,000) in the actual vote, the wingnuts have been trotting out defenses of it, of which this example is fairly typical. It usually boils down to saying that without the EC, the vast rural interior of the country could never get its choice for President and the coasts/cities/liberals would dominate just because they have a larger population.
This is an argument for minority rule, and we should call it that. It’s not different in essence from defending apartheid on the grounds that it protected South Africa from being dominated by blacks “just because” there were more of them.