In the small but symbolically resonant state of Rhode Island, voters on Tuesday delivered a rare verdict against one of their own: a sitting governor turned out of his party's nomination not by scandal, but by the accumulated weight of a single infrastructure failure. Dan McKee, who inherited the office in 2019, fell to Helena Foulkes in a Democratic primary that reminds us how swiftly public trust can erode when citizens feel unheard on matters close to their daily lives. It is only the second time since 2018 that a sitting Democratic governor has been denied renomination, a quiet but telling