The 2026 blue wave could end up washing away the Electoral College. In addition to winning Congress, Democrats won full control of state governments in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. That means that a two-decades-in-the-making plan to switch our presidential elections to a popular vote system — a plan 18 states have already approved— […]
But isn’t that already in defiance of the Compact that would’ve been passed by state law, which is also an extension of the will of the people? At that point, we just have corruption on our hands, and to some extent the entire system of electoral is already built on trust though, right? Just look how closely Trump got with the fake electors plot in 2020. It’s just that in this moment, there is a glaring systemic flaw with the E.C. that extends beyond corruption and trust.
Yes absolutely. It’s just that the compact requires much higher levels of commitment to democracy and resistance to corruption under immense political pressure than we have now and we can barely keep this together.
You would literally have to put the will of the country above that of your state’s citizens when you swore an oath to represent your state’s citizens.