Viewpoint.

NEWS"The character of our leaders seems to me a national-security issue. At the exact moment America's foes decided to become more public in their antipathy and deadlier in their calculations, our leaders in the West were becoming more frivolous and unfocused, more superficial. I'm not saying once we had Henry Clay and now we have Marjorie Taylor Greene but—well, I guess I am saying that. Leaders of other nations extrapolate from our leaders. They think that as they are, we are. It contributes to the power of the argument, in their councils of state, that the West has lost its way."The Wall Street Journal [Extracted from the article]