The phenomenon of George Santos (R-N.Y.) should come as no surprise. I don’t have to recount the lies he told to get elected to Congress. He admittedly “embellished” his resumé, lying about his educational background and his ethnicity (at various times, he claimed he was “Jew-ish,” the scion of holocaust survivors, and even said he was “Caucasion and black”). The circumstances of the death of his mother, whose life he said “9/11 claimed,” were a flat-out lie. In fact, she died in December 2016, 15 years later. I put “George Santos lies” into Google and got a startling 51 million...