The story of American democracy is not written in Washington. In recent days, we have seen again how it is shaped and renewed in places as different as the Indiana Statehouse, a state courtroom in Utah and voting booths in California.

President Donald Trump doesn’t see it that way, which is why he’s been pressuring Republicans to bend to his will and redraw congressional maps ahead of next year’s midterms.

But that effort keeps getting stopped by the people who actually run the government, patriots who pledge allegiance to the Constitution, not the man currently occupying the Oval Office.

While top Republicans in Indiana seemed ready to do Trump’s bidding, the rank-and-file in the state legislature balked . In Utah, Judge Dianna Gibson rejected a Republican-approved congressional ma

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