There is much to admire in Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention: the admirable delivery, the praise of her husband’s virtues was sincere and moving, and the rags-to-riches tale avoided seeming stale after so many others.

But the policy implications—and this was a political, as well as a personal, speech—are cause for alarm. As many observers have noted, there was no room for the private sector: all the goodies the president wishes to hand out come from government, with no mention of just how the wealth to fund these benefits is to be created. And, as contributing editor Charles Krauthammer points out, none of these benefits (all to be funded by massive redistributions of income) is the result of a left-leaning ideology. Rather, they simply represent a non-ideological president’s desire to do good—to heal the sick, succor the poor, comfort the disadvantaged. This, from the wife of this most ideological president.