“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform,” Vice President Vance told the crowd at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix this week. This was a dig at Ben Shapiro, who warned earlier in the week about “charlatan” podcasters like Candace Owens and Mr. Vance’s good friend Tucker Carlson, “who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty.” Few politicians beat on strawmen with more frequency than Mr. Vance. And, in this case, the red herring is the word “deplatform.” It insinuates a form of censorship, which no...