On Tuesday, the Democrats’ bill to federalize elections failed. Our constitutional republic was the big winner.

S. 1 fell short of the 60-vote threshold required. Thank goodness for the filibuster. The proposal was a revolutionary rearrangement of the American political system. It was designed to help the institutional Left win elections. It would have banned voter ID, mandated same-day registration, and vastly increased the problem of chronic inaccuracy in state voter rolls.