The voters of Mexico elected their first female president. They also elected their first Jewish president.
Actually, if our system of electing presidents were democratic, we would have elected our first female president in 2016. Hillary Clinton had millions more votes than Trump, but because of our archaic electoral college system, the winner of the popular vote can lose. It happened in 2000 and 2016 and came close to happening in 2020.
Both the U.S. Senate and the presidential electoral systems give unwarranted power to small conservative states. Gerrymandering has also helped Republican (and now white) candidates. Amazingly, Trump continues to bleat about how his election was stolen. He is worse than evil. He’s tiresome.
In any case, I am happy for President Sheinbaum. Nice work.
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