Shameful: South Carolina, Kansas, and Nevada cancel GOP primaries to protect Trump

What are Republicans so afraid of?

GOP officials in South Carolina and Nevada just announced the cancellation of their state primaries. They now join Kansas in that all three states will award their convention delegates to President Trump automatically. Yes, that’s right: Three state Republican parties just canceled their elections to shield an incumbent, unpopular president from his primary challengers.

This move isn’t completely unprecedented, as numerous states did something similar in 2004 to shield President George W. Bush. But it’s shameful nonetheless, and if Democrats ever did something like...