Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan civil holiday you’ve probably never heard about. It has the goal of getting tens of thousands of unregistered voters to register to vote.
If you care about limited government, the rule of law, and the Constitution, you need to register, vote, and find others not registered. Just go ahead and ask that person you suspect might not be registered.
It’s a good thing for everyone eligible to vote to do so because the United States remains a center-right nation that loves liberty. Progressives have this backward. They think that the more people who vote, the more progressives will win. Sadly, their foes sometimes believe the progressive dogma too.
The more people who register and vote, the more likely former President Donald Trump and other conservatives will win. New data show a surge in voter registrations for the 2024 election. And the numbers contain good news for Trump.
The progressive Left is on the far fringes of American thought. The overwhelming majority of the country rejects progressive orthodoxy. They stand for the flag, they respect the police, and they don’t want to see their daughters injured by boys playing in girls’ sports.
Remarkably, after decades of concentrated fire by leftist philanthropy on America’s institutions, the country continues to lean to the right. The Left’s cultural deconstruction hasn’t broken through yet.
According to a YouGov poll, 53% of U.S. adults identify as conservative. This squashes the 40% who identify as liberal.
The domestic enemies of America’s constitutional system are geographically isolated in a few pockets of urban density and on college campuses. Despite those enemies pouring billions of dollars into deconstructing American greatness, the public continues to value free speech, free enterprise, and freedom writ large.
So why wouldn’t we want everyone to vote? If more people voted, we would have more presidents like Ronald Reagan than like Barack Obama.
In 2016, voter registration reached a new high with 200 million people being registered to vote for the first time in history. According to a Reuters poll, 15% of voters who cast a ballot on Election Day in 2016 said it was their first time voting in a presidential election.
Trump drilled deeper into the electorate than any Republican had since Reagan. He drew low-propensity voters — citizens who would never vote for a Bush, McCain, or Romney voted for Trump.
The disaster of COVID-19 upset this trend in 2020, combined with the suspension of established election rules. But the fundamentals haven’t changed. Drill deeper into a center-right electorate, and more center-right candidates will win.
Love him or hate him, Trump appealed to voters who passionately believe in America and aren’t ashamed to say so.
Of course, Vice President Kamala Harris has a very different vision, one that demonizes energy and police and praises quotas and transgenderism. That isn’t America.
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The more people who vote this November, the more likely it is that Trump and other conservative candidates will win. The Senate would flip, the federal judiciary would be more conservative, and the House would hold fast.
So go register to vote if you haven’t done so already. Don’t check out when your country needs you. National Voter Registration Day might sound silly, but make it yours.
J. Christian Adams is the president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a former Justice Department attorney, and a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.