Democrats’ Legitimacy Gambit

When is an election legitimate? When Democrats win.

Does anybody remember the run-up to the 2016 presidential election? For months, Donald Trump and his Republican allies were lectured by Democrats that, no matter what, they had to “accept the outcome.” Democrats were comfortable making that demand, because they were confident that the outcome would favor them — that Mrs. Clinton would win the election. When Mrs. Clinton choked and, comically and improbably, Trump was elected president of these United States, it was Democrats who rejected the legitimacy of the vote, charging — absurdly — that it had been thrown by trolls on Facebook.