My progressive Facebook friends, and others of course, are re-posting that leftist fever dream with gusto. Posts like this are all over social media and X.

The confident and completely mistaken rhetoric that accompanies these celebrations is even being echoed by the dumb conservative news media as well. Here’s Fox: “Democrats’ midterm sweep hands them a path to bypass the Electoral College before the 2028 presidential election. Trifectas in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nevada could push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to 272 electoral votes, two more than the 270.”

No, there is no path. The Democrats’ fondness for cheating can’t get around this one: there is no “If enough people decide not to obey the Constitution, then they don’t have to obey it.” Uh-uh. Sorry. Go back to school, if you can find one that bothers to teach Civics 101. The Electoral College is how the Constitution dictates that Presidential elections are decided. Democrats don’t like that? Swell, let them try to pass a Constitutional Amendment, and good luck.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is unconstitutional, and pretty clearly so. The Compact Clause (Article I, Section 10) requires explicit Congressional consent for interstate “compacts” that alter the balance of power within the federal system and infringes upon the interests of non-compact joining states. But more decisively, the structure of the Electoral College was carefully designed by the Framers through difficult constitutional compromise. Bypassing or nullifying the operational impact of the Electoral College across state lines using a multi-state agreement rather than going through the formal Article V constitutional amendment process violates the structural integrity of the U.S. Constitution.

And that, you confirmation bias-addled revolutionaries, is the position our substantially originalist SCOTUS is bound to take, should take, and will take. Sure, there are “experts” who deny reality, but there are experts who will say anything, like, say, that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian disinformation prop. Bias makes experts stupid too.

The Electoral College is here to stay, for better or worse.