PEGGY NOONAN: on the DNC's 'soft extremism'.

There was the relentless emphasis on Government as Community, as the thing that gives us spirit and makes us whole. But government isn't what you love if you're American, America is what you love. Government is what you have, need and hire. Its most essential duties—especially when it is bankrupt—involve defending rights and safety, not imposing views and values.

Which, I think, has -- or will -- turn the American voters off.