Opinion: Turley warns Democrats now have the states to go after the Electoral College

Law professor Jonathan Turley argues in a Fox News column that Democrats are using their midterm wave to target the Electoral College. With new one-party control in states like Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, he writes, the party is ready to sign more states onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which gives a state's electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote.

Turley says the GOP's loss of roughly 46 House seats is in line with past midterms (Roosevelt lost 79, Obama 69, Clinton 54) and that presidents have come back from worse. Democrats, he argues, aren't waiting to find out. They want a president who will help pack the Supreme Court, end the filibuster and add states.

He admits he once criticized the Electoral College and that 58% of Americans favor a popular vote. But he says the push to get around Article V is a "constructive amendment" of the Constitution that is probably unlawful, and he compares the new "direct democracy" movement to the Jacobins of the French Revolution. "Ten years ago, I would have applauded this effort. Now I am deeply concerned."