Grover Norquist is No Useful Idiot

Glenn Beck has lately been rendering an extraordinary public service. The talk show host has pursued a long-running national security problem that too many other prominent figures have chosen to ignore.

In a series of recent programs, Mr. Beck has addressed evidence that a prominent anti-tax activist named Grover Norquist has been associated with – and enabled – Muslim Brotherhood individuals, organizations and influence operations. Yesterday, he grilled Norquist for an hour on his television program. It wasn’t pretty.

Norquist would have us believe that he was ignorant of – or at least not responsible for – the Islamic supremacist character of the people he hangs with and helps. That would make him a “useful idiot,” rather than an “agent of influence.” No one who knows Grover Norquist thinks he’s an idiot. We aren’t either.