Bret Stephens is still indignant over President Biden calling out Republican extremism

We're all going to be long dead before Republican Party officials and pundits get over their outrage at President Joe Biden's condemnation of Republican extremism. You can already see it building into the sort of mythology that has led to past claims like "You being rude to Mitt Romney made me vote for a narcissist, racist, tax-dodging incompetent blowhard" and "I didn't want to become a Nazi, but the casting choices in the new Lord of the Rings show left me no choice."

The Republicans most responsible for guiding their party into convenient hoaxes over irritating truths and casting aside every agenda not explicitly premised on retaliation against enemies are still going strong in their complaints that calling "MAGA" Republicans "semi-fascist" was just too unbearably rude. So here comes The New York Times poster boy for insincere rhetoric, Bret Stephens, who still hasn't gotten over his resentment—and he's going to make that everybody's problem.