Republican Senators J.D. Vance of Ohio and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota will introduce legislation today that would establish English as the official language of the United States.

Near the end of a week of radicalization, this is welcome news. Over the course of the past few days, a transgendered woman opened fire in a Christian day school, the mentally ill have scheduled their own “day of vengeance,” and a man who had previously been arrested twenty times stabbed one of Rand Paul’s staffers in broad daylight of the nation’s capital, sending him to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

So we can take a breath of fresh air when news comes in that some members of Congress are ruling in ways that might convince an outside observer that Americans still live in a society.

[I’m not as sanguine that this bill will do much to address those issues. Yes, it will formalize what’s already largely reality, and making basic understanding of the common language a prerequisite to naturalization makes sense. Other than that, though, it won’t change much of anything else. — Ed]