“States are a relic of the past,” Lawrence Samuel opines in the Washington Post this week. He complains that state governments are inefficient, expensive and unnecessary. And, by the by, the electoral system based on states happened to produce the wrong president-elect.

Samuel was not alone in finding a sudden need for electoral reform since Trump’s victory. This is a common enough flight path — perhaps it’s actually a crash landing path — for Democrats’ ideas shortly after their candidate has gone down to defeat.