Trump Set Up Election Integrity Fight With Latest Executive Order

Are the days of electoral free-for-alls behind us?

One of President Donald Trump’s main focuses since leaving the White House in 2021 has been election integrity. On March 25, he took perhaps a big step toward addressing that concern by signing an executive order that tightens just about all aspects of the electoral process. The gnashing of teeth and wailing from the political left will no doubt be almost deafening, and the lawsuits torrential. The obvious opposing narrative will be that the 47th president is trying to orchestrate a federal takeover of elections. How true is that in reality, and why would such sweeping reform even be necessary?

When Trump, as the 45th president of the United States, ran for re-election in 2020, he was up against a Democratic challenger who, until that year, had run for the White House…