Is the end nigh? Maybe, but we’ve survived so far

Nothing keeps sleep at bay these days like huffing up a few articles about democracy’s doomsday.

Barton Gellman, America’s ranking Cassandra, anticipated “the death of the body politic” in a recent essay in the Atlantic. Donald Trump is staging a comeback, Gellman wrote, and crafting ways to subvert the vote if it doesn’t go his way. If Trump makes it ba…