Stop, Election Ahead?

A look at Trump's theory that government can't function in an election year. Plus: do the shows campaigns advertise on tell us anything?

GOP theory of governance now holds that no branch of government may do anything good for the citizenry during an election year. Any such behavior would constitute election interference.

We learned a while ago, of course, that filling judiciary vacancies is verboten at such a time. Earlier this year we were told that legislation—such as bipartisan immigra…