@djc But I don't think that holds now. What little legitimacy surrounds our usual, very flawed electoral process comes from the fact that the rules and contours are well-known in advance, and the public does have some ways to intervene in it. This process would lack that legitimacy. "Public opinion" would have its effect only through media and algorithmic social-media funhouse mirrors. Those are both antidemocratic antiprocedures. 2/