Donald Trump’s latest prime‑time address on “election vulnerabilities” was billed as the moment he would finally vindicate his claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Instead, it showed how his second term is organized around relitigating that defeat and pre‑emptively casting doubt on the next one. The facts his administration released, the intelligence record on foreign interference, and the comparative‑politics literature on how democracies remain stable all tell a different story from the one he is selling.

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