“Unenthused Rand Paul Lifelessly Applauds Netanyahu Speech” bellows the National Review’s Brendan Bordelon, an outrage that, for many Republicans, seems even to eclipse the latest Hillarygate. Over at The Week, Michael Brendan Dougherty points out that applause monitoring has long been a feature of the totalitarian mind-set, citing Josef Stalin, Kim Jong Un, and now Jennifer Rubin as examples.
