A brief note: I’ll admit that I don’t know too much about Utah Senator Mike Lee. I certainly supported him in his primary challenge against the fossilized Bob Bennett back in the hazy days of 2010, as the more conservative option of the two. From that point onward, I, not being a Utahn myself, checked out and just assumed he would handle himself like most Utah Republicans do in public: with stolid dignity and the occasional dad joke about “funeral potatoes.”

Most of the time he does, I suppose. But it's been impossible not to notice that social media seems to ...