For weeks since the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump has trailed in the polls. His supporters have started to sound like conspiracy theorists in their unwillingness to accept the accuracy of the polls they seemed to love so fervently during the primary season.

A reasonable critique of polls would have sounded something like, “This is just the bounce in the polls that Hillary Clinton got from her convention, which, by the way, was a disaster, but you wouldn’t know it from the liberal media.”