a constitutional scholar as well. one of the long term benefits of federalism is supposed to be that certain things are handled better at the local level. we think of this as a liberal conserative clash but historically liberals and conservatives agree on certain things that are rightly local and other things they can debate should or should not be federal. we have a patch work election system. here rather than it being something done by some local preference, maybe say a nonpartisan reason relating to urban organization or rural distance that you might have a systemic change in how you do it. here, it s kind of antifederalist thing because it s just donald trump demanding something and all these local municipalities and states jumping lock step to do it. i m curious whether you see a hole in the system here? i totally agree with everything you said. i d add to that that democrats