If Only We’d Had the National Popular Vote Bill

Ever since Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election in 2000, the Dems have been pitching a temper tantrum about the electoral college. It’s been a 24-year drumbeat of:

• The electoral college is an obsolete artifact of the 18th century.
• The will of the people is being ignored.
• It’s not democratic — in a country that’s not a democracy.

Suddenly, the people who want to control every aspect of our lives, are all for pure democracy.

Our founders were wise beyond the average leftist’s limited intellect. They understood that pure democracies always end in looting and tyranny. With the right propaganda and moral decay, it’s just a matter of time before some dictator wannabe convinces 51 percent of the mob to vote their feelings and give him autocratic powers to make the wealthy pay their share (i.e. redistribute the wealth from the group that earned it, to the group that didn’t). Of course, after the redistribution has been completed and the booty consumed, the prosperity will wane but the tyranny will remain.

That’s why our founders were big fans of checks and balances. They understood that the only good government is a government incapable of enslaving its citizens. To that end, they entrusted the states with power over the federal government. States have influence over legislation (via the Senate) and elections (via the choice of delegates for the electoral college). (READ MORE: The Imaginary Electoral College Advantage for Trump)

But none of that matters to our leftists. If the electoral college is standing between California and New York dictating to the rest of the country how to live, it is an undemocratic relic that must be eliminated. They just needed to find a way around the Constitution without that troublesome debate and amendment process.

That’s when the Dems came up with the National Popular Vote Bill. They’re trying to get a controlling majority of states to pass the bill, which would award their state’s electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote — thus circumventing the check on concentrated power which the Constitution provides. The bill has already passed in 17 states, and the District of Columbia: Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, California, Illinois, and New York. Those jurisdictions collectively have 209 electoral votes.

Even though those states have passed the bill, it does not become operational until states with an additional 61 electoral votes pass it. At that point the participating states will have the necessary 270 electoral votes needed to control the electoral college. Unfortunately, short of Supreme Court intervention, there’s nothing the peasants in flyover country can do about it.

Have you noticed anything peculiar about the participating states? There’s not a single red or swing state among them. It’s a scheme designed by the Dems to use the states they control, to silence the states that they don’t control. The National Popular Vote Bill is a dirty trick to disenfranchise states like Florida and Pennsylvania, thus cementing one-party rule over the executive branch.

However, there’s something proponents of the National Popular Vote Bill never understood. Republicans haven’t lost the popular vote because they can’t win it. They’ve lost it because they haven’t been trying to win it. They’ve been playing by the rules — something the Dems don’t understand.

The Presidency is won by winning the electoral college, not the popular vote. It’s part of that little “checks and balances” thingy that our founders came up with. That’s why just about every Republican in modern history has competed to win enough states, rather than a popular majority. But that hasn’t stopped the Democrats from undermining the peaceful transfer of power by claiming that a loss of the popular vote delegitimized the election of George W. Bush (in 2000) and Donald Trump (in 2016).

But then Donald Trump decided to try for a return to the Oval Office and ran a very unconventional campaign in 2024. He didn’t play the game as a calculated application of gamesmanship. He wanted more than the win. He wanted to give the Dems the spanking that they had coming. He campaigned for the votes of all Americans, not just those in competitive states.

He held rallies across all of America, including the blue states of New York, Minnesota, California, Colorado, and Illinois. He knew he was never going to win those states, but by encouraging Republicans in those states to vote anyway, he ran up his popular vote total.

Guess what? The Donald delivered a tear inducing beating to those who had impugned his character, attacked his wealth, attempted to imprison him, and celebrated attempts on his life. He won the electoral college 312 to 228, and the popular vote by almost 5 million votes. (READ MORE: The Electoral College and Slavery: A Reality Check)

It has been pure schadenfreude watching the radicals melt down on national TV after the citizens of the United States selected Adolph Hitler to lead us into a brighter future (snark intended). After being called a racist womanizing semi-fascist Nazi for the past eight years, I feel entitled to trigger their anguish a bit more. 

I’d like the Dems to consider how this election would have turned out if the National Popular Vote Bill had already been operational. Can you imagine Joy Reid’s tears upon finding out that the Donald had won the electoral college 521 to 17 — after being awarded the votes of the participating states?

Can you visualize the tweets of “Meathead” Reiner when his home state of California was awarded to the “cancerous” Donald Trump? How many profanities would “Raging Bull” De Niro be able to scream when his home state of New York was awarded to the “convicted felon.” It would have been glorious! 

If the Dems keep pushing this bill, I may yet get to see them hoist themselves on their own petard in four years. Thinking of JD Vance or Ron DeSantis with a 500+ electoral college landslide gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over.

Note: Obviously I’m not in favor of selecting our President by popular vote. But if the Dems continue down this path, they may discover that it comes with some unintended consequences.

John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He is a staff writer for the American Free News Network and can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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