The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani

The tragedy of Rudy Giuliani continues to escalate with last week’s jury award of $148 million in a defamation suit brought by two Georgia election workers. What a long, strange decline it’s been for the former mayor who rescued New York City from a previous era of progressive decline.

The eight-member Washington, D.C., jury awarded the two election workers three times more than the $48 million they sought, and that is likely to be reduced by the trial judge or an appellate court.

But Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye Moss, of Fulton County, Ga., persuaded the jury and judge that they were falsely accused of manipulating absentee ballot counts. There’s no doubt the two women endured considerable abuse and damage to their reputations after they were singled out by Trump campaign allies, though Mr. Giuliani says he wasn’t the only person who identified the workers and that other people did the abusing.