But our Founders were different. They didn’t believe in those boundaries. ...

They were weird. Often the ones who said the weirdest things adopted some of the weirdest viewpoints by the standards of their day. ... 

Against that backdrop, the recent Democrat strategy of labeling their political opponents as “weird” is notable. Over the past week, prominent Democrats appeared on cable television to use the word “weird” hundreds of times to describe President Donald Trump and, especially, the GOP vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance. This wasn’t some kind of grassroots wave but appeared more like a well-coordinated political strategy to define Republicans, executed by the party’s top brass including Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Pete Buttigieg, and countless Democrat governors vying to be Harris’s pick as veep.

But alleging “weirdness” is a troubling form of political argument. It’s anti-American, on at least two levels.