I realize many sensible, sober, and pragmatic Republicans believe that President Obama is a “conventional liberal of a very familiar kind” — and they wish hyperventilating conspiracy theorists and language-raping Visigoths would just shut the hell up already with all their talk of coups and cabals and Marxist takeovers, because such nonsense rubs off on them, the good ones — but honestly: isn’t there just a little bit of doubt