“For as long as Donald J. Trump has dominated Republican politics, many Democrats have pined for a magical cure-all to rid them of his presence,” wrote Reid J. Epstein for The New York Times, in an oddly self-aware piece that still manages to give airtime to an awful lot of clownish #Resistance types. Whether the Mueller investigation, the impeachments, or, now, the Colorado Supreme Court decision to throw him off the ballot, lefties have spent the better part of the last seven years attempting to manifest the end of former President Donald Trump. It has not worked.

Now, a hefty chunk of the mainstream media reaction to the Colorado decision has been…impressively aware of how flimsy the legal logic is, contra my expectations. That hasn’t stopped some people from doubling down, though.

“Courts in six states have already dismissed parallel efforts to strike Trump from the ballot on 14th Amendment grounds,” wrote Intelligencer’s Ed Kilgore. “Bids to exclude him are still kicking around courts in 14 other states.”

Nobody knows yet whether, when taken up by the Supreme Court, this ruling will be smacked down. But it is at least heartening to see some level of collective awareness that these are not the means by which Trump should lose; a regular old election is the way we tend to handle this, and for good reason.