None of this is to say we don’t have a problem. It is true that Trump has a cult-like following. Obama had a cult-like following, as well. Those only suddenly horrified or okay with this trend are either hypocrites or frauds. The more important you make politics, and the bigger government gets, the more likely we are to see more of it.

The problem here, though, is that any scientific credence that polling lends to political debate is undermined when pollsters offer absurd hypotheticals that skew questions to establish the preconceived notions of one side. Neither the courts nor Republicans nor the dispersed state electoral system—one that so many on the Left want to centralize—would ever acquiesce to a postponement of the presidential election. Nor has Trump ever proposed doing anything of the sort. Polling can often offer us useful information about what Americans are thinking. Entertaining the imagination of the fever swamp is a waste of time.