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The most important election is the one most Americans skip

The case for reforming partisan primary elections.

Iran gridlock and middling China trips aside, President Donald Trump is having a pretty good month. Three May elections tested his grip on the Republican Party — and his candidates cleaned up.

In Indiana, five Trump-backed challengers defeated Republican state senators who opposed the president’s efforts to redraw state electoral maps.

In Louisiana, Sen. Bill Cassidy — who angered Trump by voting to convict him in his second impeachment trial, after January 6 — lost decisively to a MAGA candidate backed by the president.

In Kentucky, meanwhile, Trump waged an aggressive campaign against House Republican Thomas Massie, who championed the release of the Epstein files and criticized the Iran war. The eight-term lawmaker was defeated last night by Ed Gallrein, a Trump surrogate and political newcomer.

Trump has cast these victories as proof his influence........

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