Taking on the bullies …

… Walter Kirn Is Middle America’s Defiant Defender. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Apologizing for sounding “corny,” he insists that small-town America has always been “a reservoir of idealism”—an idealism that led him to abhor bullies. “I see the American establishment playing the part of the bully towards its own people,” he says. He recently tweeted that the U.S. government “acts increasingly like a haughty, impatient, insecure, and rather paranoid colonial administration.”