Four years earlier, after Trump lost to Cruz in the Iowa caucuses, the future president trotted out his usual playbook of insisting he had won and accusing the actual winner (Cruz) of election fraud. This was, even then, entirely predictable for Trump, who was never a huge adherent of that old Republican ethic of “personal responsibility.” He had previously complained that he’d “gotten screwed” out of, among other things, an Emmy Award and would later insist he’d have won the popular vote against Hillary, except for the ever-present “voter fraud” and the (nonexistent) “busloads of people from
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