Fears of a ‘coup’ are unwarranted

Published July 25, 2017 4:01am ET



“Much of America will not tolerate Mueller undoing the election,” Roger Simon warned us this weekend, one of a long line of voiced apprehensions that sinister forces are planning to reverse the verdict laid down in November.

But such fears, it appears, are overstated. Under our system, a president cannot be unseated unless most of the public supports his removal. If Trump were ejected by scandal, it would not undo the election at all.

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