Politicians on the Left have spent years labeling everything President Donald Trump does or says as a vague “threat to democracy.” But the real threat to our democracy and system of self-rule is routinely ignored by the political class.

Speaking from the White House, the president outlined newly declassified intelligence, which reveals how exposed American elections have become to foreign adversaries and to votes cast by people illegally present in our country. He drew a distinction between two threats. On the global stage, he showed that China has acquired an estimated 220 million American voter files, a trove that includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and party preferences. That kind of information, in the hands of the communist Chinese government, becomes a ready-made map for targeting registration systems and undermining our election integrity.