On Election Day, Democrats Are Haunted by the Ghosts of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton

The visitor looked to his left as he stepped onto Fifth Avenue but forgot that in America traffic flows the opposite direction than in his native England. He never saw the car coming.

“I do not understand why,” Winston Churchill later said of being hit by a car that night in New York City in December 1931, “I was not broken like an eggshell or squashed like a gooseberry.”

After a visit to nearby Lenox Hill Hospital to clean up a nasty scalp wound and two cracked ribs, Churchill ended...