Defeated Democrats have as soon as once more launched into a pointless, post-election pursuit of their political Holy Grail – discovering the votes to get rid of the Structure’s Electoral School.
It’s by no means going to occur, however that hasn’t stopped three Senate Democrats from introducing a purely political modification to vary the election of presidents to a nationwide fashionable vote contest.
This even supposing Donald Trump received the favored vote in 2024, and traditionally the winner of the Electoral School has misplaced the favored vote a handful of occasions in American historical past – the final time in 2016.
The Senate proposal – which surprisingly was not sponsored by both of Massachusetts’ liberal senators – would wish the approval of three-quarters of all 50 states and a two-thirds vote in Congress – an almost unattainable feat at the moment.
Republicans now management the Home and Senate and would by no means let the modification even come for a vote.
So why do Democrats proceed to focus on the Electoral School as their bugaboo?
Laziness.
It’s a fast and simple fundraising software for Democrats to lift money off the backs of deluded supporters. A lot the identical because the invoice to develop the Supreme Courtroom, which additionally has zero likelihood of taking place.
And it’s pretty straightforward for Democrats to enchantment to their partisan supporters to again a well-liked vote answer, which requires little clarification to their low-information voters.
Blaming the Electoral School for his or her presidential failures just isn’t solely unhealthy politics but additionally inaccurate.
Sure, it stopped Al Gore and Hillary Clinton from profitable the White Home, however the reality is it’s solely occurred a handful of occasions in American historical past.
The argument that one way or the other voters in additional populous states are disenfranchised can be a fallacy.
Even Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren appeared to have moved on to different pursuits, like blocking Trump’s Cupboard appointees.
And even liberal publications like The New Republic are ridiculing the Electoral School elimination plan as unrealistic and pointless.
They level out that it could be a lot simpler for Democrats to easily improve the variety of Home representatives from 435 to greater than 500, thereby giving populous states extra energy.
It’s by no means been executed since 1910 however a minimum of would require solely a vote of Congress, not a constitutional modification.
The rationale Democrats are greedy at straws is only political – they understand their possibilities of profitable the White Home sooner or later are shortly slipping away because of their far-left insurance policies and lack of ability to attach with common voters in battleground states.
The 2024 election was not some type of anomaly – it was a predictor of issues to return except Democrats transform their mind-set.
Their outdated method for profitable elections – cobbling collectively a majority of liberals, minorities and elites from the West and East coasts – is now not possible. Republicans are gaining amongst Black and Latino voters and capturing most voters within the center, particularly in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan – a part of the crumbling “Blue Wall.”
It’s a bleak future for Democrats, with or with out the Electoral School.
