If America descends into fascism with another Donald Trump presidency, it will be because of the Electoral College — a system designed to protect slavery by consolidating the power of the will of the people.

The Founding Fathers believed that ordinary citizens couldn’t be trusted to elect the president directly, so they created a system where electors cast the final votes.

In America, democracy is a sham, votes are unequal and a handful of swing states decide the country’s future.

The race should not be this close. Trump has never won the popular vote, yet he could take office again. In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million but still won the election. Fascism shouldn’t wield this threat, but the Electoral College makes it possible.

It’s hard to have faith in a failed two-party system chained to this outdated electoral process.

Candidates check states off an electoral map that was never meant to be fair. Even Harris, who struggles to offer a platform beyond “not Trump,” has had to play by these rules, deadlocked in a race that should never be this close.

63% of Americans want the president chosen by the popular vote, but it won’t happen in our lifetimes. Abolishing the Electoral College would need a constitutional amendment, which requires approval from three-fourths of state legislatures.

The smaller states that benefit from this system would never give up the chance to disproportionately influence the election.

This undemocratic structure will persist, leaving America neck-and-neck with authoritarianism at the ballot box every four years.