In an Age of Lies, Truth Is Extreme

The late columnist, Joe Sobran, diagnosed America’s political malaise with scalpel-like precision:

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

By this clinical standard, the forgotten American qualifies as a dangerous extremist—and it is high time people like this we...