From Peggy Noonan’s current Wall Street Journal column about Ronald Reagan’s 1980 co-opting of the John Birch Society (“Well, he said pleasantly, they said they support me, I didn’t say I support them”):

He cared about reality, about the facts of the world, and bothered to know them.

That’s rich, considering how often Reagan created his own reality, mostly sculpted from black-and-white movie scenes in which he had appeared.

Then again, reality has never been Ms. Noodnik’s strong suit.