President Trump’s triumph Tuesday, as astounding an event as has ever happened in an American election, will be seen as many things — but our first hope is that it will serve as an acquittal by the American people in the legal warfare levied against him by the Democrats these past four years. He won not only the electoral vote but the popular vote, animated by millions who were offended at the violations of due process that Trump has had to face down. ...

In his victory remarks, the 47th president-elect declared that “it’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us, It’s time to unite.” That’s a message to make stick — from a president who now has an opportunity to fulfill the vows that hoisted him to the White House in 2016.