Some of Cornel West's supporters annoy me. They seem desperate to deny vote splitting, even though that's what the Green Party has done in past elections. There is also the problem of what would happen if, by some odd political earthquake, CW actually became President. I wrote an essay for Reddit about that:
What if Cornel West wins? : BreakingPoints
I myself think that his candidacy is doomed to failure, and I could discuss in gory detail why I think so. But I’ll leave that aside, and I’ll consider what would happen if he won the majority of electoral votes next year, enough to elect him President.
He’ll be an absolute babe in the woods when it comes to governing and policymaking. He won’t know his way around any of the Federal Government, and he will be dependent on his underlings for that. Even worse, he would have no idea of who might make a good underling. Will he become dependent on the Democratic Party establishment for his White House staff?
He’ll have to work with a Congress that is dominated by the two major parties, to the point that the three self-proclaimed independents work with one of these parties and are effectively members of that party. Will he end up a de facto Democrat, like Bernie Sanders? Will he be able to twist arms to get what he wants?
He’ll also have to work with the Supreme Court, and given its current composition, that may be difficult.
He’ll have zero political coattails, since he has so far shown zero interest in supporting the candidacy of anyone else.
So his Presidency is likely to be an abject failure. Either he will seem hopelessly inept, like Jimmy Carter, or he will act like some latter-day Julius Caesar, like Donald Trump.
