At the “Trumpapalooza” convention in Dallas last month, the president urged his followers to “cheat like hell” in this fall’s election, now just two weeks away. The man who insists — with no evidence of any kind — that the 2020 election was stolen from him has now turned into the Cheater-in-Chief.

With his approval rating plunging to 33% in the latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, his lowest score ever, Trump’s threat to democracy becomes even more dangerous. “Election officials across the country are taking the possibility of disruption seriously,” reports Reuters.

So is the voting public, with only 37% in the Post-ABC survey saying that Trump is committed to “free and fair elections,” with 61% doubting his devotion.

Fortunately, the many guardrails that thwarted Trump’s attempt to avert his defeat six years ago are still in place. Start with the Constitution, which clearly gives the states, not the federal government, the right to run elections, and add a combination of local officials and federal judges from both parties who have consistently resisted Trump’s tampering and tantrums.

But it would be a big mistake to dismiss Trump’s vow to “cheat like hell” as one more example of his........

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