If Mitt Romney had said in 2012 that a second Obama term would bring not just continued economic uncertainty, but also the re-emergence of international terrorist forces, Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, an illegal immigration crisis, a knife-wielding madman in the White House, a beheading in Oklahoma, and the Ebola virus in Texas, even the president’s most paranoid critics would have told him to calm down.

But here we are, with a president overcome by crises—a situation summed up succinctly this morning by Matthew Continetti in the Free Beacon.