There was a time when most Americans could agree on a few basic things: that facts mattered, elections counted and that no one — not even the powerful — was above the law. Those ideas formed the quiet backbone of our democracy. They didn’t need shouting from rooftops; they were already understood. Lately, that understanding feels as if it’s slipping away.

Everywhere you look confidence in our institutions is thinning. Courts are questioned, elections are doubted and truth is treated as a matter of opinion. The rule of law, once the country’s proudest achievement, is too often dismissed as an obstacle to whatever outcome someone happens to want.

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