Court ruling barring Trump from the ballot could end up making him stronger

For those who recognize Donald Trump as the looming threat to democracy that he so clearly is, the news out of Colorado on Tuesday might sound unambiguously positive. The state’s supreme court ruled that Trump can be barred from next year’s Colorado presidential primary, based on the argument that he committed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and is therefore ineligible to become president. Yet as dangerous as Trump is, we must express some discomfort with this development. Whatever constitutional validity the court’s ruling may or may not have will be determined as the legal process continues pl...