At a time when Republican midterm election prospects are looking weaker every day and much of Donald Trump’s agenda is at sea or at risk, why do you suppose he’s focused more than ever on his definitively, redundantly debunked 2020 “stolen election” myths? Yes, he is a man who always dwells on his grievances, and certainly part of the reason he wants to pursue his lurid 2020 fantasies is that he now commands the federal law-enforcement machinery that can wreak havoc on the lives of those who have opposed him in the past. But it’s increasingly clear that in terms of Trump’s attitude toward election administration, the past is prelude and pretext.

Trump has repeatedly talked about forcing states to radically modify voting procedures to address specious fraud allegations. His latest threat came on Monday during an appearance on the podcast hosted by Dan Bongino, the former deputy FBI director and longtime MAGA activist.

“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places.’ The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump said, per NBC News.

“We have states that are so crooked, and they’re counting votes — we have states that I won that show I didn’t win. Now you’re going see something in Georgia where they were able to get with a court order, the ballots, you’re going to see some interesting things.”

Trump was alluding to the bizarre FBI raids conducted in Atlanta recently to seize 2020 voter files with the assistance of, even stranger to say, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. It’s unclear what exactly the administration has in mind in........

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