Barton Swaim, a sometimes-erudite opinion author for the Wall Road Journal, posed this query to author Mark Helprin in a column that appeared over the weekend. Swaim, whose gentle, earnest face first graced the stage of opinion theater following a stint as speechwriter for foolish South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, enumerated all of the “criminals, ideologues, and irredentists” who may presumably threaten america.