The GOP’s sustained effort to accuse those who mobilize Democratic constituencies — as Wellstone did better than anyone — of vote fraud is designed not just to delegitimize both big-D and small-D democracy, but also to elicit this kind of tribalistic hatred.

Where “too little, too late” meets “better than nothing” and “it’s about time,” we have the announcement that Michigan’s unhinged, obsessed, homophobic Assistant AG is finally taking a leave of absence, probably to devote himself full-time to his stalking career.