As Democrats approach America’s 250th birthday on July 4, their efforts to wreck the foundation of our republic’s spectacular success are numerous. I’ll get to one of them with an anecdote.

In a pretty harbor town in Maine in 2024, a campaign volunteer pressed me to support the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact that would commit states to give their Electoral College votes to the candidate who won the popular vote for president, even if the state’s voters chose the other guy.