For generations, the United States has sustained a fragile but functional architecture of electoral trust — one built not on perfection, but on shared procedures and the willingness of the losing side to accept results. An opinion in The New York Times argues that President Trump is now deliberately dismantling that architecture ahead of the 2026 midterms, not by challenging specific rules but by eroding confidence in the system itself. The piece calls on the Supreme Court to recognize this as a constitutional inflection point — a moment when judicial intervention is not partisan preference, b