Ohio governor Mike DeWine has been getting a lot of well-deserved attaboys for his aggressive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, taking many steps that other state and local officials were slow to emulate. But in effectively stopping his state’s presidential primary without having the authority to cancel it, he set a precedent that raises some troubling questions about what less responsible elected officials might do in the near future. As Ian Millhiser explains, on the very eve of the scheduled March 17

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