"Israel, I think, should not be reckoned as part of the West, if only because of the decisive circumstance that its state system is fundamentally linked to religion."
—Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Commencement Address, 1978.
It is tempting to suggest to House Speaker Mike Johnson that, if he remains Speaker after the mid-term election, he corrals a majority of House members to refuse the seat the "Democratic Socialists" that New York City Democrats have selected on the straightforward ground that they will not fulfill their oaths of office to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution."