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Nonetheless, three years ago, Trump seemed to throw his career away by appearing to act out every #Resistance prediction about his authoritarian unwillingness to leave office. One thing could wipe out that impression, and we’re there: an open argument from opponents that saving democracy from Trump requires canceling it. No matter how many lawyers the party drags out to explain the reasoning behind this, it will look like an effort by Democrats trapped in a poll chasm to avoid the risk of a contested election. Even The Guardian, which published the single most craven fake news story of the Trump period — the never-retracted assertion that Paul Manafort snuck into the Ecuadorian embassy to hold “secret talks” with Julian Assange — is saying Trump needs to be “beaten politically.”

A pair of stories about to come out in Racket, about a little-known episode involving a group called the Transition Integrity Project, suggests some Democrats may have tricked themselves into abandonment of “norms” out of conviction that cutting corners is the only way to stop Trump. The problem with that is that while presidential politics in America has always been dirty, openly dirty doesn’t sell, at least not yet. Maybe the groups behind these state suits think that with a properly pruned ballot, they won’t need to sell it. Let’s hope that’s not the case. For or against Trump, everyone should want his fate decided by vote.