Six years after a contested election, an American president returned to the East Room to reopen a wound the nation had never fully closed, this time naming China as the architect of a stolen democracy. The claims — sweeping in scope, absent in evidence — arrived alongside declassified documents that independent review found proved little beyond what was already known. In the space between allegation and proof, a legislative agenda took shape: voter ID requirements that must pass before the midterms, a priority so consuming it has already cost the country a housing bill. History will note that