The Biden people, being wrong about almost everything, decided to sanctify error. They were the keepers of reality, owners of the truth, and they told us, over and over again, “Error is truth”—and they insisted we repeat it until we got it right.

Only the brawling, bumbling ringleader of the great circus that is today’s Republican Party could break open our sclerotic overclass and lay it bare for the whole republic to see—not simply its emptiness but its rot.