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While Americans brace for another contentious presidential election, the Democrats have a better idea: Subvert the Constitution in the name of “democracy.” Once again, the party of the left shows why it’s losing Americans’ trust.

Quietly but steadily, the Democratic Party has been advancing its latest bold idea to create a uni-party state: A “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.”

In case you missed it, the Associated Press reported last week that “Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote,” the 17th state to do so.

As the AP noted, “Under the proposed compact, each state would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for president, regardless of how individual states voted in an election.”

The goal of this “movement” — it’s really a plot — is to get enough states to join to get to the magic number of 270 electoral votes, the amount needed to win the Electoral College. With Maine, the group now claims 209 electoral votes, a mere 61 away from their goal.

What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, except it’s an out-and-out attempt at subverting the protections placed in the Constitution to keep from having a national popularity contest for the presidency. This is what Democrats call “democracy.” In fact, it’s a recipe for mob rule.

Our founders, who were extraordinarily wise and deeply steeped in both political history and philosophy, understood very well: Nations that start as law-respecting republics (America, in case you didn’t know, is a republic, a representative democracy, not a pure democracy) and employ “majority rules” quickly devolve into dictatorships.

That was the whole reason for the Electoral College, which plays a vital role in determining our president by giving states a role in the election of a president. The media understand this, as a recent ABC News headline shows: “State law takes U.S. a step closer to popular vote deciding presidential elections”.

A “popular vote”? Only to the extent the Democrats can rig it, with questionable mail-in ballots, dead people voting, live people voting more than once, and millions of government tax dollars handed out to left-leaning groups that focus almost exclusively on “getting out the vote” for Democrats.

Giving states guaranteed clout in presidential elections is the surest way to keep our nation intact. Should this be dissolved, and we move to a pure popular vote, states might think about seceding rather than being neutered.

Do we want another Civil War?

And what kind of candidate wins like that anyway, in an election in which his or her party can ignore half of the country’s voters? A demagogue.

Because in such a system, states no longer matter, but Washington, D.C., will. Our current system makes even small states important to election outcomes. They can’t be ignored. Which means politicians must pay attention.

“Under the compact, campaigns will be devoted to driving maximum partisan turnout in the states where each party dominates – California, Texas, and so on. Who cares about South Dakota when there are millions of votes to be had in Florida?” John Hinderaker of the popular Power Line blog correctly notes. “The interstate compact would turn our republic into a country that essentially is governed by plebiscite.”

Exactly.

It bears repeating, because so few understand: Our republic elects its officials democratically, but also recognizes the sovereignty of each state and the sanctity of individual rights enshrined in the Constitution. We are not a “democracy.” And, no, the “majority” doesn’t rule. The Constitution does, and it’s hard to change it, by design.

The Electoral College was created as a buffer between the people and their government, specifically to prevent mob rule, which is what pure “democracy” ultimately becomes. The Constitution protects the rights of all, not just the mob that rules.

There’s an old joke, funny mostly because it’s so true: “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” If you’re not in the majority, you’re the sheep, and you are eaten.

Democrats feel a sense of urgency. One more term for the gerontocrat and his handlers (nearly all former Obama and Clinton retreads) now in the White House, and America’s far-left turn will be complete.

Remember, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 in the Electoral College (304 Trump, 221 Clinton), but lost in the popular vote (46.1% Trump, 48.2% Clinton). He nearly did the same again running against Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump is the only person standing between the Democrats and the radical changes in America they seek: Forming an unrecognizably woke, equity-obsessed, and race-based society, with corporations and businesses tightly controlled by inept Washington bureaucrats.

Where does it all end? Ask anyone who ever lived in a “socialist” country with rigged national elections. It’s an invitation for voter fraud on a national scale, and power without end for an elite few in the name of “our democracy.”

With six of the seven major swing states now favoring Trump in the polls, the compact’s authors clearly hope to keep Trump from winning again. They likely won’t reach their goal this year, but might for 2028.

But there is some hope: The scheme is likely unconstitutional. As the Princeton Legal Journal recently argued, “This (compact) constitutes a violation of the Compact Clause, which states that ‘No State shall, without the Consent of Congress … enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.’”

Even the Harvard Law Review, hardly a bastion of conservatism, argues against the legality of the compact.

So, more than likely, any deal that deprives people of their rights under the Constitution will be declared null and void by the Supreme Court.

That said, don’t think for a minute that mere unconstitutionality will stop the Democrats. If you’re in a state that has yet to join the other 17 in this deceptive compact, you should make it clear to your elected officials that you strongly object to it.