Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias wants you to believe that he wants to save democracy — by, conveniently, electing Democrats. But his partisanship isn’t the biggest red flag. Elias’s attempt to hold himself up as democracy’s great defender is most complicated by his role in funding and spreading British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited anti-Trump dossier while he served as the Hillary Clinton campaign’s general counsel. Those actions, as well as his behavior since then, have undermined the very democratic process of which he claims to be a champion. The dossier was full of lurid and fantastical claims about Donald Trump's supposed connection to Moscow. Those bits of disinformation were provided to the Clinton campaign's allies, some of whom were hired by Elias (one such group was the opposition research firm known as Fusion GPS). The dossier was then deployed by the FBI to obtain secret surveillance against a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, beginning in 2016. Its publishing in January 2017 by BuzzFeed led to a yearslong Democratic frenzy: Rep. Adam Schiff, the House intelligence chairman, read portions of it into the Congressional Record, and left-wing partisans and media personalities promoted its false narrative of a collusion conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin. It was a grand conspiracist snowball rolled down the hill by Marc Elias, a virtual unknown to most of America but one of the most powerful inner-circle Democratic Party figures in...