“President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he had fallen short in the popular vote in the general election only because millions of people had voted illegally, leveling the baseless claim as part of daylong storm of Twitter posts voicing anger about a three-state recount push.” —The New York Times

The fraud affected just the part he lost. That tweet sums up the kernel of his thinking: Whatever goes against him must be rigged. Four years of that? Collective hearts are sinking.