According to Politico, early voting has already surpassed 36 million votes, almost 9 million votes more than the 2014 midterm election. The Democrats’ drive to repudiate President Trump is only matched by the Republicans’ enthusiasm to defy expectations of losing control of the House of Representatives....

In 1889, Alexis de Tocqueville, a French diplomat and political scientist, penned “Democracy in America”—not only the greatest book on America, but also the greatest book on democracy. A portion of the closing chapters are devoted to imagining the nature of a usurpatious democracy. Tocqueville...