Beto O’Rourke hadn’t even said he was running for President yet, but earlier this week the Club for Growth political action committee announced a five-figure ad buy attacking the former Texas Senate candidate in Iowa. A video ad released last Sunday on YouTube criticizes Mr. O’Rourke for his record as an El Paso City Councilman, a 1998...

Fringe campus politics has gone mainstream, and identity politics is a core Democratic tenet. So it’s unfortunate to see this rancorous ideology also adopted by the right as a political weapon.

Beto O'Rourke in February Photo: Kathy Willens/Associated Press

Fringe campus politics has gone mainstream, and identity politics is a core Democratic tenet. So it’s unfortunate to see this rancorous ideology also adopted by the right as a political weapon.

Beto O’Rourke hadn’t even said he was running for President yet, but earlier this week the Club for Growth political action committee announced a five-figure ad buy attacking the former Texas Senate candidate in Iowa. A video ad released last Sunday on YouTube criticizes Mr. O’Rourke for his record as an El Paso City Councilman, a 1998 drunken-driving arrest, and disparaging comments he made about women as a 19-year-old writing for a student newspaper.