The Virginia Board of Elections rule allowing officials to count ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal.

So by all means enjoy the mock-inauguration of a corrupt, senile hack as the fruit of ballot-box stuffing and fake COVID panic. But remember that now we all live in a tinpot Bananas Republic. And a disciplined, fanatically nationalist, resurgent Red China is smiling. The virus it shipped worldwide succeeded beyond its leaders’ wildest expectations.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Federal law enforcement officials have issued an eight-count indictment against a doctor they say illegally imported and sold hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a curative for COVID-19.