By Hans von Spakovsky~

Watching the hysterical reaction of the radical left—such as Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post—to Attorney General William Barr’s thoughtful, well-reasoned, important speech at the Federalist Society convention on the constitutional doctrine of the unitary executive is like history repeating itself.

In a recent speech, Attorney General William Barr encapsulated the severe damage being done to the remarkable and extraordinary experiment in self-rule that the Framers of the Constitution created in 1787. Pictured: Barr speaks at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Forensic Science Center on Oct. 2, 2019 in Topeka, Kansas. (Photo: Ed Zurga/Getty Images)

Liberals had the same overreaction to then-Attorney General Edwin Meese’s 1985 speech to the American Bar Association on the Constitution and originalism.

Only someone as openly partisan and ill-informed as Marcus could possibly claim that a speech explaining the historical basis of the founders’ views on the importance of a…